Abstract
The production and event topology of three-jet events produced in collisions at TeV have been studied with the Collider Detector at Fermilab at the Tevatron Collider. The distributions of the three-jet angular variables ( and ) and of the variables describing the energy sharing between jets ( and ) are found to agree well with tree-level QCD calculations. These distributions are predicted to have different shapes for different initial-state subprocesses (quark-antiquark, quark-gluon, and gluon-gluon). The data are consistent with the small expected contribution from quark-antiquark initial states, in agreement with theoretical expectations.
- Received 3 September 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.1448
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