Jets and Partons

Abstract

Jet production in high energy hadron-hadron collisions can serve as a probe for new physics. I review recent data from CDF and D0 on the high E_T jet cross section. Reporting on recent work of the CTEQ collaboration, I argue that the apparent excess seen in the CDF data may be due to the gluon distribution function used in the theoretical calculation being too small at large x. I discuss data on the dijet angular distribution, which shows no sign of a new physics signal.

Adapted from talks at XXVIII International Conference on High Energy Physics, Warsaw, July 1996 and at QCD Euroconference 96, Montpellier, July 1996. 13 pages with 11 figures. Figure 5 has some defective postscript code that may confuse ghostview, but it prints correctly. Replaced version has ``too large'' changed to ``too small'' in the abstract

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• Inclusive jet cross section in $\bar{p}p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.8$ TeV
• Large Transverse Momentum Jet Production and the Gluon Distribution Inside the Proton