Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 2041
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2041-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Evaluation of the strong coupling constant α _S using the ATLAS inclusive jet cross-section data

¹ CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
² DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany

^* e-mail: Bogdan.Malaescu@cern.ch

Received: 5 April 2012
Revised: 21 May 2012
Published online: 13 June 2012

Abstract

We perform a determination of the strong coupling constant using the latest ATLAS inclusive jet cross section data, from proton–proton collisions at , and their full information on the bin-to-bin correlations. Several procedures for combining the statistical information from the different data inputs are studied and compared. The theoretical prediction is obtained using NLO QCD, and it also includes non-perturbative corrections. Our determination uses inputs with transverse momenta between 45 and 600 GeV, the running of the strong coupling being also tested in this range. Good agreement is observed when comparing our result with the world average at the Z-boson scale, as well as with the most recent results from the Tevatron.