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Determination of $\alpha_{s}$ from F$_{2}^{p}$ at HERA

We compute the proton structure function F_2^p at small x and large Q^2 at next-to-leading order in alpha_s(Q^2), including summations of all leading and subleading logarithms of Q^2 and 1/x in a way consistent with momentum conservation. We perform a detailed comparison to the 1993 HERA data, and s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ball, Richard D., Forte, Stefano
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(95)01012-F
http://cds.cern.ch/record/282734
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Sumario:We compute the proton structure function F_2^p at small x and large Q^2 at next-to-leading order in alpha_s(Q^2), including summations of all leading and subleading logarithms of Q^2 and 1/x in a way consistent with momentum conservation. We perform a detailed comparison to the 1993 HERA data, and show that they may be used to determine alpha_s(M_Z^2)=0.120 pm 0.005(exp) pm 0.009(th). The theoretical error is dominated by the renormalization and factorization scheme ambiguities.