NLO QCD calculations in DIS at HERA based on the dipole formalism

Abstract

We briefly describe a new general algorithm for carrying out QCD calculations to next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. The algorithm can be used for computing arbitrary jet cross sections in arbitrary processes and can be straightforwardly implemented in general-purpose Monte Carlo programs. We show numerical results for the specific case of jet cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at HERA energies.

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. Presented at the Workshop on Future Physics at HERA, DESY, Hamburg, Germany. This paper can also be obtained from http://surya11.cern.ch/users/seymour/pubs/hera.ps.Z