This thesis presents a new determination of {Lambda}{sub QCD} from Next-to-Leading Order QCD fits to the Q{sup 2} dependence of neutrino-iron structure functions. This is the first measurement of {Lambda}{sub QCD} which uses a theoretical model that fully accounts for heavy quark production. Compared with previous neutrino measurements, the result has improved understanding of the largest systematic uncertainties on the muon and hadron energy scales. These improvements lead to one of the most precise determination of {alpha}{sub S} at moderate Q{sup 2}. NuTeV is a neutrino-iron deep inelastic scattering (DIS) experiment that collected data during 1996-97 at Fermilab. The key …
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This thesis presents a new determination of {Lambda}{sub QCD} from Next-to-Leading Order QCD fits to the Q{sup 2} dependence of neutrino-iron structure functions. This is the first measurement of {Lambda}{sub QCD} which uses a theoretical model that fully accounts for heavy quark production. Compared with previous neutrino measurements, the result has improved understanding of the largest systematic uncertainties on the muon and hadron energy scales. These improvements lead to one of the most precise determination of {alpha}{sub S} at moderate Q{sup 2}. NuTeV is a neutrino-iron deep inelastic scattering (DIS) experiment that collected data during 1996-97 at Fermilab. The key features of NuTeV include its sign-selected beam which produced separate high purity neutrino and antineutrino beams, and its continuous calibration beam which enabled NuTeV to considerably improve the knowledge of energy scales which have dominated uncertainties in the previous measurements.
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Radescu, Voica A. & U., /Pittsburgh.QCD fits to neutrino-iron structure functions at NuTeV,
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Batavia, Illinois.
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