QCD radiative corrections to ${\gamma }^{\ast }{\gamma }^{\ast }\to$ hadrons at LEP2

Abstract

In this talk we describe the order-$\text{as}$ corrections to the total cross section and to jet rates in ${\gamma }^{\ast }{\gamma }^{\ast }\to$ hadrons for the process $\text{epem}\to \text{epem}+$ hadrons. We use a next-to-leading order general-purpose partonic Monte Carlo event generator that allows the computation of a rate differential in the produced leptons and hadrons. We compare our results with the experimental data for $\text{epem}\to \text{epem}+$ hadrons at LEP2.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, JHEP3 style. Invited talk at EPS2001, International Europhysics Conference on HEP