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Jet Physics at CDF Sally Seidel University of New Mexico APS’99 24 March 1999 CDF: A multi-purpose detector for studying hadronic collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron: The Inclusive Jet Cross Section For jet transverse energies in the range 40 ET 440 GeV: this probes distances down to 10-17 cm. The analysis: For luminosity (88.8 ± 4.1) pb-1 Trigger on jet-like events: accept 4 triggers with uncorrected ET thresholds at 20, 50, 70, and 100 GeV; correct for pre-scaling C Apply data quality requirements: ?zvertex? 60 cm to maintain projective geometry of calorimeter towers 0.1 |?detector| 0.7 for full containment of energy in central barrel Etotal 1800 GeV to reject accelerator loss events Define ET = E?sin? and = missing ET. Require to reject cosmic rays Correct (“unsmear”) observed ET for energy degradation and calorimeter resolution The Dijet Mass Cross Section The Dijet Differential Cross Section * 1. Jets at CDF 2. The Inclusive Jet Cross Section 3. The Dijet Mass Cross Section 4. The Differential Dijet Cross Section The motivation: Jet distributions at colliders can: signal new particles test QCD predictions check parton distribution functions The data: CDF reconstructs jets using an iterative cone algorithm with cone radius Jet energies are corrected for calorimeter non-linearity uninstrumented regions contributions from spectator partons The iterative cone algorithm: Examine all calorimeter towers with ET 1 GeV. Form preclusters from continuous groups of towers with monotonically decreasing ET. If a tower is outside a window of 7 x 7 towers from the seed of its cluster, start a new precluster with it. For each precluster, find the ET-weighted centroid with R = 0.7. Define the centroid to be the new cluster axis. Save all towers with ET 100 MeV within R = 0.7 about the new axis. Iterate until the to