THE STRONG-COUPLING CONSTANT, ALPHA(S), FROM W- AN ANALYSIS USING PADE APPROXIMANTS(JET PROCESSES )

The recent results for R = sigma(W+1jet)/sigma(W+0jets) obtained by th e DO Collaboration at Fermilab are reanalyzed. We use Pade Approximant s (PA) to estimate the higher-order QCD corrections, which we find are on the order of 4%. We observed that using PA, we obtain the predicti ons of R increased by approximately 4%, independent of parton distribu tion functions used in the prediction, and are consistently lower by a bout one standard deviation compared to the experimental result. Inadd ition, they are independent of the values of alpha(M(z)) used in the p arton distribution function fits.