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Strong coupling constant extraction from high-multiplicity Z+jets observables

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-03-21 v2

Abstract

We present a strong coupling constant extraction at Next-to-Leading Order QCD accuracy using ATLAS Z+2,3,4 jets data. This is the first extraction using processes with a dependency to high powers of the coupling constant. We obtain values of the strong coupling constant at the ZZ mass compatible with the world average and with uncertainties commensurate with other NLO extractions at hadron colliders. Our most conservative result for the strong coupling constant is αS=0.11780.0043+0.0051\alpha_S=0.1178 ^{+0.0051}_{- 0.0043}.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01408,
  title  = {Strong coupling constant extraction from high-multiplicity Z+jets observables},
  author = {Mark Johnson and Daniel Maître},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01408},
  year   = {2018}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures

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