1997/06/28 by A. L. Kataev, A. V. Kotikov, G. Parente +2 · 108 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(97)01239-2
published in Physics Letters B 417(3-4), 374-384 (Elsevier BV) · LateX file, 12 pages, 3 ps figures; Presented in part at QCD Session of Recontres des Moriond-97 (March, 1997); submitted for publication
arxiv created 1997/06/28 · openalex publication_date 1998/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present the results of the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD analysis of the recently revised experimental data of the CCFR collaboration for the xF3 structure function using the Jacobi polynomial expansion method. The effects of the higher twist contributions are included into the fits following the infrared renormalon motivated model. The special attention is paid to the checks of the predictive abilities of the infrared renormalon model and to the independent extraction of the x-shape of the twist-4 contributions to the xF3 structure function in the process of the leading order, next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order fits of the revised CCFR data. We stress that at the next-to-next-to-leading order the results for αs(MZ) turn out to be almost nonsensitive to the higher-twist terms. We obtain the following result αs(MZ)NNLO=0.117 ± 0.002(stat) ± 0.005 (syst)± 0.003 (theory). The comparison of the outcomes of our next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order analysis indicate that the theoretical QCD uncertainties were underestimated in the process of the next-to-leading order determination of αs(MZ), made recently by the CCFR collaboration itself.