# 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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### Abstract

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$$\,\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$$fb-1collected 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 $$\alpha _\mathrm {S}$$αS 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 $$\alpha _S(M_\mathrm{Z}) = 0.1171 \pm 0.0013\,\text {(exp)} \,^{+0.0073}_{-0.0047}\,\text {(theo)}$$αS(MZ)=0.1171±0.0013(exp)-0.0047+0.0073(theo).

Original language English 1-24 24 European Physical Journal C 75 5 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3376-y Published - May 1 2015

### Keywords

• 3-jet mass
• Alpha-S
• CMS
• Jets
• PDF
• Physics
• QCD
• Strong coupling constant

### ASJC Scopus subject areas

• Engineering (miscellaneous)
• Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

### Cite this

Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Erö, J., Fabjan, C., Friedl, M., Frühwirth, R., Ghete, V. M., Hartl, C., Hörmann, N., Hrubec, J., Jeitler, M., Kiesenhofer, W., Knünz, V., Krammer, M., Krätschmer, I., ... Collaboration, AT. T. C. M. S. (2015). 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. European Physical Journal C, 75(5), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3376-y