Measuring the number of hadronic jets

Abstract

A quantitative description of the qualitative feature of multi-hadron final states known as the "number of jets" is given by a sequence of infrared finite shape observables (jet discriminators) that: take continuous values between 0 and 1; are stable-unlike clustering algorithms-against small variations of the input (data errors, Sudakov effects etc.); have a form of multiparticle correlators that is natural in the context of quantum field theory and hence are better suited for a systematic study of theoretical uncertainties (logarithmic and power corrections).

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