Measurement of Multijet Production in DIS and Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant

Abstract

Inclusive jet, dijet and trijet differential cross sections have been measured in neutral current deep-inelastic scattering for exchanged boson virtualities $150<Q^2<15000$ GeV${}^2$ with the H1 detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 351 pb$^{-1}}$. The multijet cross sections are presented as a function of $Q^2$, the transverse momentum of the jet $P_T$ (the mean transverse momentum for dijets and trijets) and the proton's longitudinal momentum fraction of the parton participating in the hard interaction $\xi$. The cross sections are compared to perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-leading order and the value of the strong coupling ${\alpha }_s(M_Z)$ is determined.

arXiv comment4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of XIX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2011) April 11-15, 2011, Newport News, VA USA