Jet Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA

Abstract

Two-jet cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at HERA are calculated in next-to-leading order. The importance of higher order corrections and recombination scheme dependencies is studied for various jetalgorithms. Some implications for the determination of ${\alpha }_s({\mu }_R^2)$, the determination of the gluon density and the associated forward jet production in the low $x$ regime at HERA are briefly discussed.

Comments: Invited talk given at the Cracow Epiphany Conference on Proton Structure, Krakow, January 5-6,1996; presented by E. Mirkes. 12 pages, Latex, uses epsfig.sty, 3 figures. The complete paper, including figures, is also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/ , or via www at http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/cgi-bin/preprints/