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Triply Differential Jet Cross Sections for Hadron Collisions at Order alpha_s^3 in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We discuss cross sections for hadron + hadron to 2 jets + anything in which three jet variables are measured. Such cross sections are useful especially for determining parton distributions. We define a new cross section d sigma/dX_A dX_B d eta_* for which the perturbation theory is nicely behaved even in the kinematic regime where the parton distributions are probed at large momentum fractions. The cross section d\sigma/dE_{T1}\, d\eta_1\, d\eta_2, which has been used in the past, is not so well behaved in this region. We calculate these cross sections at order αs3\alpha_s^3 in QCD.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9412342,
  title  = {Triply Differential Jet Cross Sections for Hadron Collisions at Order alpha_s^3 in QCD},
  author = {Stephen D. Ellis and Davison E. Soper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9412342},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, REVTEX3.0, two uuencoded postscript figures