Review of Recent Tevatron Jet, W/Z+Jet and Heavy-flavor Production Results

TL;DR

This review summarizes recent Tevatron measurements of jet, electroweak boson, and heavy-flavor production, testing QCD predictions and exploring potential new physics with data from Fermilab's CDF and D0 experiments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent experimental results that validate and constrain theoretical models of particle production and searches for new physics at the Tevatron.

Findings

Measurements agree with perturbative QCD predictions

Constraints on parton distribution functions improved

No evidence of new physics found in dijet angular distributions

Abstract

This document reviews several recent measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron, including the cross sections of inclusive jet, dijet production, the cross sections of electroweak boson (W or Z) production in association with inclusive or heavy-flavor (b or c) jets, and b-jet shapes. In addition, searches for new physics using the dijet angular distributions are discussed. These analyses are based on integrated luminosities of 0.3--2.5/fb of p-pbar collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF and D0 detectors. The results directly test the leading order and next-to leading order calculations of perturbative quantum chromodynamics and provide constraints on the parton distribution functions, gluon-splitting contribution, and physics beyond the standard model.