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Publications and source records attributed to Walter T. Giele.
I present results of a next-to-leading order calculation of three jet production at hadron colliders. This calculation will have many applications. In addition to computing three-jet observables (spectra, mass distributions), this calculation permits the first next-to-leading order studies (at hadron colliders) of jet and event shape variables.
We report preliminary results for a next-to-leading order event generator for hadronic three jet production. We demonstrate the stability of the calculation and present preliminary results for the jet transverse energy spectra. This is the first calculation of three jet production at this order to include all parton sub-processes.
Standard parton distribution function sets do not have rigorously quantified uncertainties. In recent years it has become apparent that these uncertainties play an important role in the interpretation of hadron collider data. In this paper, using the framework of statistical inference, we illustrate a technique that can be used to efficiently propagate the uncertainties to new observables, assess the compatibility of new data with an initial fit, and, in case the compatibility is good, include the new data in the fit.
In this contribution we explore one of the many possibilities of determining the strong coupling constant $α_S$ at hadron colliders. The method considered is quite unique compared to other methods in that the value of $α_S$ is determined by the ``evolution rate'' of the parton density functions rather than by the ``event rate''.
We present an alternate method to measure $M_W$ at the Tevatron with high luminosity from a direct comparison of the $W$ and $Z$ distributions.
We present the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of a $W$-boson in association with a jet containing a heavy quark. The calculation is fully differential in the final state particle momenta and includes the mass of the heavy quark. We study for the case of the Tevatron the sensitivity of the cross section to the strange quark distribution function, the dependence of the cross section on the heavy quark mass, the transverse momentum distribution of the jet containing the heavy quark, and the momentum distribution of the heavy quark in the jet.
The next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of a $W$-boson in association with a jet containing a heavy quark are presented. The calculation is fully differential in the final state particle momenta and includes the mass of the heavy quark. We study for the case of the Tevatron the sensitivity of the cross section to the strange quark distribution function, the dependence of the cross section on the heavy quark mass, the transverse momentum distribution of the jet containing the heavy quark, and the momentum distribution of the heavy quark in the jet.
We describe a general method of calculating the fully differential cross section for the production of jets at next-to-leading order in a hadron collider. This method is based on a `crossing' of next-to-leading order calculations with all partons in the final state. The method introduces universal crossing functions that allow a modular approach to next-to-leading order calculations for any process with initial state partons. These techniques are applied to the production of jets in association with a vector boson including all decay correlations of the final state observables.