Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section Using the k_T Algorithm in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Authors

A. Abulencia, University of Illinois, Urbana
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
CDF Collaboration

Date of this Version

3-31-2006

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 122001 (2006). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2006 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We report on a measurement of the inclusive jet production cross section as a function of the jet transverse momentum in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using data collected with the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab in run II, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 385 pb^-1. The measurement is carried out for jets with rapidity 0.1 <∣y^jet∣ < 0.7 and transverse momentum in the range 54<p_T^jet < 700 GeV/c. Next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions are in good agreement with the measured cross section after the necessary nonperturbative parton-to-hadron corrections are included.