Four-jet production at the Large Hadron Collider at next-to-leading order in QCD.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012;
109:042001. [PMID:
23006076 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.109.042001]
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Abstract
We present the cross sections for production of up to four jets at the Large Hadron Collider, at next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling. We use the BLACKHAT library in conjunction with SHERPA and a recently developed algorithm for assembling primitive amplitudes into color-dressed amplitudes. We adopt the cuts used by ATLAS in their study of multijet events in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. We include estimates of nonperturbative corrections and compare to ATLAS data. We store intermediate results in a framework that allows the inexpensive computation of additional results for different choices of scale or parton distributions.
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