Measurement of the Strong Coupling Constant from Inclusive Jet Production at the Tevatron

Anwar Bhatti and Christina Mesropian
Abstract
We present a measurement of the strong coupling constant, alpha_s, extracted from inclusive jet production in ppbar collisions at 1.8 TeV. The "running" of alpha_s is tested over the jet transverse energy range from 40 to 450 GeV. The average value at the mass of the Z^0 boson is found to be alpha_s(M_Z)= 0.1129 \pm 0.0001(stat)+0.0078-0.0089(exp.syst). The associated theoretical uncertainties are mainly due to the choice of renormalization scale (5%) and input parton distribution functions (5%).

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