Higher twists and αs(MZ) extractions from the NNLO QCD analysis of the CCFR data for the xF3 structure function Original Research Article

A detailed next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD analysis is performed for the experimental data of the CCFR collaboration for the xF3 structure function. Theoretical ambiguities of the results of our NNLO fits are estimated by application of the Padé resummation technique and variation of the factorization and renormalization scales. The NNLO and N3LO αs(Q2) MS-matching conditions are used. In the process of the fits we are taking account of twist-4 1/Q2-terms. We found that the amplitude of the x-shape of the twist-4 factor is decreasing in NLO and NNLO, though some remaining twist-4 structure seems to retain in NNLO in the case when only statistical uncertainties are taken into account. The question of the stability of these results to the application of the [0/2] Padé resummation technique is considered. Our NNLO results for αs(MZ) values, extracted from the CCFR xF3 data, are αs(MZ)=0.118±0.002(stat)±0.005(syst)±0.003(theory) provided the twist-4 contributions are fixed through the infrared renormalon model and αs(MZ)=0.121+0.007−0.010(stat)±0.005(syst)±0.003(theory) provided the twist-4 terms are considered as free parameters.