Next to Leading Order Three Jet Production at Hadron Colliders

Abstract

I present results from a next-to-leading order event generator of purely gluonic jet production. This calculation is the first step in the construction of a full next-to-leading order calculation of three jet production at hadron colliders. Several jet algorithms commonly used in experiments are implemented and their numerical stability is investigated. A numerical instability is found in the iterative cone algorithm which makes it inappropriate for use in fixed order calculations beyond leading order.

Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX2e, 4 Postscript figures using epsfig.sty. To appear in the proceedings of XXXIInd Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, 22-29 March 1997