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Publications and source records attributed to Iain A. Bertram.
Results are presented from analyses of jet data produced in pbarp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1960 GeV collected with the DZero and CDF detectors during 2002--03 at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Preliminary measurements of the inclusive jet cross section, the dijet mass spectrum, and jet structure are presented.
The systematic uncertainties of the measurements of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section at the Tevatron and their effect on the chi^2 comparisons between data and theoretical predictions are discussed.
Searches for new resonant phenomena on top of a continuum spectra need to make assumptions regarding the shape of the continuum spectra. The Ansatz function method used in previous searches for new particles decaying to dijets is investigated and found to have inherent biases that cause the 95% confidence limits on the signal cross-section to be miss-measured by up to 30 to 50%.