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Three- and four-jet final states in photoproduction at HERA
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Three- and four-jet final states in photoproduction at HERA

S. Chekanov, M. Derrick, S. Magill, B. Musgrave, D. Nicholass, J. Repond, R. Yoshida, M.C.K. Mattingly, M. Jechow, N. Pavel, …
Nuclear physics. B, Vol.792(1), pp.1-47
03/21/2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.08.021

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Abstract

Three- and four-jet final states have been measured in photoproduction at HERA using the ZEUS detector with an integrated luminosity of 121   pb −1 . The results are presented for jets with transverse energy E T jet > 6   GeV and pseudorapidity | η jet | < 2.4 , in the kinematic region given by the virtuality of the photon Q 2 < 1   GeV 2 and the inelasticity 0.2 ⩽ y ⩽ 0.85 and in two mass regions defined as 25 ⩽ M n j < 50   GeV and M n j ⩾ 50   GeV , where M n j is the invariant mass of the n-jet system. The four-jet photoproduction cross section has been measured for the first time and represents the highest-order process studied at HERA. Both the three- and four-jet cross sections have been compared with leading-logarithmic parton-shower Monte Carlo models, with and without multi-parton interactions. The three-jet cross sections have been compared to an O ( α α s 2 ) perturbative QCD calculation.
Jets Multi-parton interactions Photoproduction QCD

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