Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet production in pppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s}=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

Collaboration
Dec, 2011
41 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 014022
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-PH-EP-2011-192
Experiments:

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Inclusive jet and dijet cross sections have been measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The cross sections were measured using jets clustered with the anti-kT algorithm with parameters R=0.4 and R=0.6. These measurements are based on the 2010 data sample, consisting of a total integrated luminosity of 37 inverse picobarns. Inclusive jet double-differential cross sections are presented as a function of jet transverse momentum, in bins of jet rapidity. Dijet double-differential cross sections are studied as a function of the dijet invariant mass, in bins of half the rapidity separation of the two leading jets. The measurements are performed in the jet rapidity range |y|<4.4, covering jet transverse momenta from 20 GeV to 1.5 TeV and dijet invariant masses from 70 GeV to 5 TeV. The data are compared to expectations based on next-to-leading order QCD calculations corrected for non-perturbative effects, as well as to next-to-leading order Monte Carlo predictions. In addition to a test of the theory in a new kinematic regime, the data also provide sensitivity to parton distribution functions in a region where they are currently not well-constrained.
Note:
  • 42 pages plus author list (54 pages total), 20 figures, 36 tables, matches final version to appear in Physical Review D
  • 12.38.Qk
  • 13.87.Ce
  • jet: hadroproduction
  • jet: particle identification
  • differential cross section: measured
  • parton: distribution function
  • p p: scattering
  • dijet: mass spectrum
  • ATLAS
  • CERN LHC Coll