Measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelations in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector and determination of the strong coupling

Collaboration, ATLAS (2018) Measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelations in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector and determination of the strong coupling. Phys. Rev. D, 98 (9). 092004-.

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Abstract

A measurement of the rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of dijet azimuthal decorrelations is presented, using the quantity $R_{\Delta \phi}$. The quantity $R_{\Delta \phi}$ specifies the fraction of the inclusive dijet events in which the azimuthal opening angle of the two jets with the highest transverse momenta is less than a given value of the parameter $\Delta \phi_\mathrm{max}$. The quantity $R_{\Delta \phi}$ is measured in proton--proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$8 TeV as a function of the dijet rapidity interval, the event total scalar transverse momentum, and $\Delta \phi_\mathrm{max}$. The measurement uses an event sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb$^{-1}$ collected with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Predictions of a perturbative QCD calculation at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling with corrections for non-perturbative effects are compared to the data. The theoretical predictions describe the data in the whole kinematic region. The data are used to determine the strong coupling $\alpha_{\mathrm{S}}$ and to study its running for momentum transfers from 260 GeV to above 1.6 TeV. An analysis that combines data at all momentum transfers results in $\alpha_{\mathrm{S}}(m_{Z}) = 0.1127^{+0.0063}_{-0.0027}$.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	46 pages in total, author list starting page 30, 4 figures, 11 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D.. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2012-19
Uncontrolled Keywords:	hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2018 15:17
Last Modified:	16 Mar 2024 11:12
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.97.092004
Open Access URL:	https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD....
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3026062