Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in $p \bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96 {\rm TeV}$

TL;DR

This paper presents a measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV, covering a wide range of jet momenta and rapidities, and compares the results with QCD predictions.

Contribution

The study provides detailed measurements of the inclusive jet cross section at Tevatron energies, including systematic uncertainty correlations, and confirms agreement with next-to-leading order QCD calculations.

Findings

Cross section measurements agree with NLO QCD

Systematic uncertainties correlations are characterized

Jet transverse momentum range from 50 to 600 GeV

Abstract

We report on a measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in $p \bar{p}$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt s=$1.96 TeV using data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.70 fb$^{-1}$. The data cover jet transverse momenta from 50 GeV to 600 GeV and jet rapidities in the range -2.4 to 2.4. Detailed studies of correlations between systematic uncertainties in transverse momentum and rapidity are presented, and the cross section measurements are found to be in good agreement with next-to-leading order QCD calculations.