https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02347-1
Experimental Physics
Multijet production in neutral current deep inelastic scattering at HERA and determination of 
Multijet production rates in neutral current deep inelastic scattering have been measured in the range of exchanged boson virtualities 
. The data were taken at the ep collider HERA with centre-of-mass energy 
using the ZEUS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 
. Jets were identified in the Breit frame using the k
T
cluster algorithm in the longitudinally invariant inclusive mode. Measurements of differential dijet and trijet cross sections are presented as functions of jet transverse energy (
), pseudorapidity (
) and Q
2 with 
and 
. Next-to-leading-order QCD calculations describe the data well. The value of the strong coupling constant 
, determined from the ratio of the trijet to dijet cross sections, is 
.
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