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The QCD renormalization scale stability of high twists and $\alpha_s$ in deep inelastic scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A sensitivity of twist-4 and αs\alpha_s values extracted in the NLO QCD analysis of nonsinglet SLAC-BCDMS-NMC deep inelastic scattering data to the choice of QCD renormalization scale (RS) is analysed. It is obtained that the high twist (HT) contribution to structure function F2F_2, is retuned with the change of RS. This retuning depends on the choice of starting QCD evolution point Q0Q_0 and x. At Q0>10GeV2Q_0 > 10 GeV^2 the HT contribution to F2F_2 is retuned at small xx and almost not retuned at large xx; at small Q0Q_0 it exhibits approximate RS stability for all x in question. The HT contribution to FLF_ L is RS stable for all Q0Q_0 and x. The RS sensitivity of αs\alpha_s also depends on the choice of Q0Q_0: at large Q0Q_0 this sensitivity is weaker, than at small one. For Q02=9GeV2Q_0^2=9 GeV^2 the value αs(MZ)=0.1183±0.0021(stat+syst)±0.0013(RS)\alpha_s(M_Z)=0.1183\pm0.0021(stat+syst)\pm0.0013(RS) is obtained. Connection with the higher order QCD corrections is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912484,
  title  = {The QCD renormalization scale stability of high twists and $\alpha_s$ in deep inelastic scattering},
  author = {Alekhin Sergey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912484},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

preprint IHEP-99-55, 10 pages, LATEX, 9 figures (EPS)