Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section at the Fermilab Tevatron<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mover accent="true"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mover></mml:math>collider using a cone-based jet algorithm

Abstract

We present a measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in p-pbar\ncollisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV based on data collected by the CDF II detector\nwith an integrated luminosity of 1.13 fb^-1. The measurement was made using the\ncone-based Midpoint jet clustering algorithm in the rapidity region of |y|&lt;2.1.\nThe results are consistent with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD\npredictions based on recent parton distribution functions (PDFs), and are\nexpected to provide increased precision in PDFs at high parton momentum\nfraction x. The results are also compared to the recent inclusive jet cross\nsection measurement using the k_T jet clustering algorithm, and we find that\nthe ratio of the cross sections measured with the two algorithms is in\nagreement with theoretical expectations over a large range of jet transverse\nmomentum and rapidity.\n