2000/12/22 by J. Womersley, John Womersley, Womersley, John
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0012061
Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (RADCOR 2000), Carmel, CA, September 11-15, 2000. Replaced to correct spelling
openalex publication_date 2000/12/22 · arxiv created 2001/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
I shall review the present status of Tevatron QCD studies, focusing on the production of jets, vector bosons, photons and heavy quarks. In general there is good agreement between the results of current calculational tools and the experimental data. The major areas of discrepancy arise when the input parton distributions become uncertain (for example, jets at high ET) or when the momentum scales become relatively small (for example, b production at low pT). We can look forward to continued improvement in both calculations and measurements over the next decade. However, fully exploiting the power of the data will require considerable work, both from the experimentalists who must understand and publish all the systematic errors and their correlations, and from the phenomenologists who must understand the level of uncertainty in their calculations and in the parton distributions.