QCD Jets and Parton Showers

Abstract

I discuss the calculation of QCD jet rates in e+e- annihilation as a testing ground for parton shower simulations and jet finding algorithms.

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, contribution to Proceedings of Gribov-80 Memorial Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamic and Beyond, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 26-28 May, 2010