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Inclusive jet production at the Tevatron using the D0 experiment
A preliminary measurement is presented of the inclusive jet production cross section in p{bar p} collisions at a center-of-mass energy of {radical}s = 1960GeV: The data was taken with the D0 detector and represents an integrated luminosity of {approx} 900 pb{sup -1} of Tevatron RunII data. The cross section is studied as a function of jet transverse momentum (p{sub T}) and rapidity (y) and compared to perturbative QCD predictions in next-to-leading order including two-loop threshold corrections
Left-Handed W Bosons at the LHC
The production of W bosons in association with jets is an important
background to new physics at the LHC. Events in which the W carries large
transverse momentum and decays leptonically lead to large missing energy and
are of particular importance. We show that the left-handed nature of the W
coupling, combined with valence quark domination at a pp machine, leads to a
large left-handed polarization for both W^+ and W^- bosons at large transverse
momenta. The polarization fractions are very stable with respect to QCD
corrections. The leptonic decay of the W bosons translates the common
left-handed polarization into a strong asymmetry in transverse momentum
distributions between positrons and electrons, and between neutrinos and
anti-neutrinos (missing transverse energy). Such asymmetries may provide an
effective experimental handle on separating W + jets from top quark production,
which exhibits very little asymmetry due to C invariance, and from various
types of new physics.Comment: 32 pages, revtex, 17 figures, 3 tables, v2 minor corrections to ME+PS
results, no changes to conclusions, added reference
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