DETERMINATION OF THE STRONG COUPLING CONSTANT FROM NLO QCD ANALYSIS OF PROTON STRUCTURE FUNCTION

Abstract

In this article we present a determination of the strong coupling constant and parton distribution functions (PDFs) based on a next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD analysis of proton structure function. More precisely, we extract [Formula: see text] and PDFs by fitting perturbative QCD predictions to the data from the measurements of the proton structure function [Formula: see text] in deep inelastic scattering, which are based on perturbative QCD calculations up to NLO. We obtain at NLO [Formula: see text] in the variable-flavor number scheme.