Implications of the Tevatron Jet Results on PDF

Abstract

We report a new measurement of the pseudorapidity (eta) and transverse- energy (Et) dependence of the inclusive jet production cross section in pbar p collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV using 95 pb**-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The differential cross section d^2sigma/(dEt deta) is presented up to |eta|=3, significantly extending previous measurements. The results are in good overall agreement with next-to-leading order predictions from QCD, indicate a preference for certain parton distribution functions, and provide the world's best constraint on the gluon distribution at high parton momentum fraction x.

Invited talk at Deep Inelastic Scattering 2001, Bologna, Italy, April 27 - May 1, 2001