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# Measurement of the inclusive 3-jet production differential cross section in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV and determination of the strong coupling constant in the TeV range

Khachatryan, Vardan and Belyaev, Alexander (2015) Measurement of the inclusive 3-jet production differential cross section in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV and determination of the strong coupling constant in the TeV range. The European Physical Journal C, 75 (186), 186.

Record type: Article

## Abstract

This paper presents a measurement of the inclusive 3-jet production differential cross section at a proton–proton centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 fb−1fb−1 collected with the CMS detector. The analysis is based on the three jets with the highest transverse momenta. The cross section is measured as a function of the invariant mass of the three jets in a range of 445–3270 GeV and in two bins of the maximum rapidity of the jets up to a value of 2. A comparison between the measurement and the prediction from perturbative QCD at next-to-leading order is performed. Within uncertainties, data and theory are in agreement. The sensitivity of the observable to the strong coupling constant αSαS is studied. A fit to all data points with 3-jet masses larger than 664 GeV gives a value of the strong coupling constant of αS(MZ)=0.1171±0.0013(exp)+0.0073−0.0047(theo)αS(MZ)=0.1171±0.0013(exp)−0.0047+0.0073(theo) .

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Published date: 1 May 2015
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 409616
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/409616
ISSN: 1434-6044
PURE UUID: e3efd666-3903-4b96-b161-f413ef361617
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 01 Jun 2017 04:02

## Contributors

Author: Vardan Khachatryan