Charged Jet Evolution and the Underlying Event in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV

CDF Collaboration
Proposed Speaker: Rick Field
Abstract
The growth and development of "charged particle jets" produced in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV are studied. The QCD "hard scattering" Monte-Carlo models describe quite well the properties of the leading charged particle jet. A number of "global" observables are examined, where to fit these observable the models have to describe the entire proton-antiproton event structure correctly. In particular, the behavior of the "underlying event" in hard scattering processes is studied in detail. None of these models (with their default parameters) describe correctly all the properties of the "underlying event".