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a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 2 0 8 1 8 8 v 1 2 1 A u g 2 0 0 2 A study of QCD coupling constant and power corrections in the fixed target deep inelastic measurements ? V.G. Krivokhijine and A.V. Kotikov Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia We reanalyze deep inelastic scattering data of BCDMS Collaboration by including proper cuts of ranges with large systematic errors. We perform also the fits of high statistic deep inelastic scattering data of BCDMS, SLAC, NM and BFP Collaborations taking the data separately and in combined way and find good agreement between these analyses. We extract the values of both the QCD coupling constant αs(M 2 Z ) up to NLO level and of the power corrections to the structure function F2. 1. Introduction The deep inelastic scattering (DIS) leptons on hadrons is the basical process to study the values of the parton distribution functions (PDF) which are universal (after choosing of fac- torization and renormalization schemes) and can be used in other processes. The accuracy of the present data for deep inelastic structure functions (SF) reached the level at which the Q2- dependence of logarithmic QCD-motivated terms and power-like ones may be studied separately (for a review, see [1] and references therein). In the present paper we sketch the results of our analysis [2] at the next-to-leading order (NLO) of perturbative QCD for the most known DIS SF F2(x,Q 2) taking into account experi- mental data [4]-[7] of SLAC, NM, BCDMS and BFP Collaborations. We stress the power-like effects, so-called twist-4 (i.e. ～ 1/Q2) contributions. To our purposes we represent the SF F2(x,Q 2) as the contribution of the leading twist part F pQCD 2 (x,Q2) described by perturbative QCD, when the target mass corrections are taken into account, and the nonperturbative part (“dynamical” twist-four terms): F2(x,Q 2) ≡ F full 2 (x,Q2) = F pQCD 2 (x,Q2) ( 1 + h?4(x) Q2 ) , (1) where h?4(x) is magnitude of twist-four terms. Contrary to standard