https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6551-8
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Determination of the strong coupling constant using inclusive jet cross section data from multiple experiments
1
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
2
Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik (ETP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Süd, Postfach 6980, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany
3
Department of Physics, Louisiana Tech University, 600 Dan Reneau Dr., Ruston, LA, USA
* e-mail: klaus.rabbertz@cern.ch
Received:
24
July
2018
Accepted:
21
December
2018
Published online:
28
January
2019
Inclusive jet cross section measurements from the ATLAS, CDF, CMS, D0, H1, STAR, and ZEUS experiments are explored for determinations of the strong coupling constant 
. Various jet cross section data sets are reviewed, their consistency is examined, and the benefit of their simultaneous inclusion in the determination is demonstrated. Different methods for the statistical analysis of these data are compared and one method is proposed for a coherent treatment of all data sets. While the presented studies are based on next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD), they lay the groundwork for determinations of at next-to-next-to-leading order.
© The Author(s), 2019
