Photoproduction of single inclusive jets at future ep colliders in next-to-leading order QCD

TL;DR

This paper presents a next-to-leading order QCD calculation for single-inclusive jet photoproduction in unpolarized and polarized lepton-hadron collisions, emphasizing phenomenological implications for future ep colliders.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive NLO QCD framework including direct and resolved photon contributions, with analytical approximations, for jet production at future colliders.

Findings

Perturbative stability of predictions analyzed

Potential to constrain photon parton content discussed

Analytical form of calculations within small-cone approximation

Abstract

A next-to-leading order QCD calculation for single-inclusive jet photoproduction in unpolarized and longitudinally polarized lepton-hadron collisions is presented which consistently includes ``direct'' and ``resolved'' photon contributions. The computation is performed within the ``small-cone approximation'' in a largely analytical form. Phenomenological aspects of jet production at future ep colliders such as the CERN-LHeC and the polarized BNL-eRHIC are discussed, placing particular emphasis on the perturbative stability of the predictions and the possibility to constrain the parton content of the photon.