Uncertainties on the determination of the strong coupling αs from the energy evolution of jet fragmentation functions at low z
d'Enterria, D., & Perez-Ramos, R. (2016). Uncertainties on the determination of the strong coupling αs from the energy evolution of jet fragmentation functions at low z. In M. Aguilar-Benítez, J. Fuster, S. Martí-García, & A. Santamaría (Eds.), ICHEP 2014 : 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) Valencia, Spain, 2-9 July 2014 (pp. 1943-1948). Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings, Vol. 273-275. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.314
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The QCD coupling αs is determined at NLO*+NMLLA accuracy from the comparison of experimental jet data to
theoretical predictions of the energy-evolution of the parton-to-hadron fragmentation function moments (multiplicity,
peak, width, skewness) at low fractional hadron momentum z. From the existing e+e− and e±p jet data, we obtain
αs(m2
Z ) = 0.1195±0.0021(exp)+0.0015
−0.0 (scale) at the Z mass. The uncertainties of the extracted αs value are discussed.