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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

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Eur.Phys.J.C 75 (2015) 186, 2015.

Abstract (data abstract)
CERN-LHC. 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 inverse femtobarns 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 alpha[S] 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 $\alpha_S(\mathrm{M}_\mathrm{Z}) = 0.1171 \pm 0.0013 \mathrm{(exp)} {}^{+0.0073}_{-0.0047} \mathrm{(theo)}$.

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Data from Figure 1 (uncertainty) + Figure 4 (measurement)

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Measured 3-jet mass cross section with uncertainties.

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Data from Figure 2

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Overview of the NP correction factors and their uncertainties in the inner and outer rapidity region.

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Data from Table 3

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Determinations of $\alpha_s(M_Z)$ in the considered $m_3$ ranges.

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Data from Table 3a

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Determinations of $\alpha_s(M_Z)$ in the considered $y_{max}$ ranges.

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Data from Table 4

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Determinations of $\alpha_s(Q)$ in the considered $m_3$ ranges.

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Data from not given in the paper

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Covariance matrices for experimental uncertainties.

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