The NLO DGLAP extraction of αs and higher twist terms from CCFR xF3 and F2 structure functions data for νN DIS

We performed the detailed NLO analysis of the combined CCFR xF(3) and F-2 structure functions data and extracted the value of alpha(s), parameters of distributions and higher-twist (HT) terms using the direct solution of the DGLAP equation. The value of alpha(s)(M-z)= 0.1222 +/- 0.0048(exp)+/- 0.0040(theor) was obtained. The result has larger central value and errors, than the original result of the CCFR collaboration, in view of the incorporation into the fits of the WT terms as the free model independent parameters. The x-shapes of the HT contributions to xF(3) and F-2 are in agreement with the results of other model-independent extractions and are in qualitative agreement with the predictions of the infrared renormalon model. We also argue that the low x CCFR data might have the defects, since their inclusion into the fits led to the following low x-behaviour of the gluon distribution xG(x,9 GeV2) similar to x(0.092+/-0.0073), in contradiction with the results of its extraction from low x HERA data. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.