Measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelations at central rapidities in pp collisions at sqrt s =1.96 TeV.
Physical review letters 94:22 (2005) 221801
Authors:
VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L Agram, SN Ahmed, SH Ahn, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Asman, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, F Badaud, A Baden, S Baffioni, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, F Beaudette, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, M Binder, A Bischoff, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, P Bonamy, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, C Boswell, A Brandt, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, TH Burnett, E Busato, JM Butler, J Bystricky, F Canelli, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, D Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, L Chevalier, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, AR Clark, B Clément, C Clément, Y Coadou, DJ Colling, L Coney, B Connolly, M Cooke, WE Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, J Coss, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, M Cristetiu, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, B Davies, G Davies, GA Davis, K De, P de Jong, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, S Dean, K Del Signore, F Déliot, PA Delsart, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, JT Eltzroth, VD Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, D Evans, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, J Fast, SN Fatakia, D Fein, L Feligioni, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, F Fleuret, M Fortner, H Fox, W Freeman, S Fu, S Fuess, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, M Gao, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, P Gay, D Gelé, R Gelhaus, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, G Geurkov, G Ginther, K Goldmann, T Golling, B Gómez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, G Graham, PD Grannis, S Greder, JA Green, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, S Grinstein, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, L Groer, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, W Gu, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, H Haggerty, S Hagopian, I Hall, RE Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, P Hanlet, K Harder, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, C Hays, J Hays, T Hebbeker, C Hebert, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, R Hooper, S Hou, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, Y Huang, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, A Jenkins, R Jesik, Y Jiang, K Johns, M Johnson, P Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, H Jöstlein, A Juste, MM Kado, D Käfer, W Kahl, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, D Kau, Z Ke, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, KH Kim, B Klima, M Klute, JM Kohli, M Kopal, VM Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, AV Kotwal, A Koubarovsky, O Kouznetsov, AV Kozelov, J Kozminski, J Krane, MR Krishnaswamy, S Krzywdzinski, M Kubantsev, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, VE Kuznetsov, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, SW Lee, WM Lee, A Leflat, C Leggett, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, P Lewis, J Li, QZ Li, X Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, J Lu, HJ Lubatti, A Lucotte, L Lueking, C Luo, M Lynker, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, M Maity, N Makovec, PK Mal, S Malik, VL Malyshev, V Manankov, HS Mao, Y Maravin, T Marshall, M Martens, MI Martin, SEK Mattingly, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, T McMahon, D Meder, HL Melanson, A Melnitchouk, X Meng, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, C Miao, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, J Mitrevski, N Mokhov, J Molina, NK Mondal, HE Montgomery, RW Moore, M Mostafa, GS Muanza, M Mulders, YD Mutaf, E Nagy, F Nang, M Narain, VS Narasimham, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O'Dell, DC O'Neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, B Olivier, N Oshima, GJ Otero y Garzón, P Padley, K Papageorgiou, N Parashar, J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, PM Perea, E Perez, O Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, L Phaf, R Piegaia, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, BG Pope, E Popkov, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, MB Przybycien, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, KJ Rani, PA Rapidis, PN Ratoff, NW Reay, J-F Renardy, S Reucroft, J Rha, M Ridel, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, BM Sabirov, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, RD Schamberger, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, AA Schukin, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, V Shary, WD Shephard, D Shpakov, RA Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, D Skow, P Skubic, P Slattery, RP Smith, K Smolek, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, Y Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, V Sorín, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, NR Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, G Steinbrück, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, S Tentindo-Repond, E Thomas, B Thooris, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, TG Trippe, B Tuchming, C Tully, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, HD Wahl, R Walker, N Wallace, Z-M Wang, J Warchol, M Warsinsky, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, M Wegner, N Wermes, A White, V White, D Whiteson, D Wicke, DA Wijngaarden, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, J Wittlin, T Wlodek, M Wobisch, J Womersley, DR Wood, Z Wu, TR Wyatt, Q Xu, N Xuan, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, SW Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, B Zhang, D Zhang, X Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, H Zheng, B Zhou, Z Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A Zylberstejn, D0 Collaboration
Abstract:
Correlations in the azimuthal angle between the two largest transverse momentum jets have been measured using the D0 detector in p (-)p collisions at a center-of-mass energy sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV. The analysis is based on an inclusive dijet event sample in the central rapidity region corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 150 pb(-1). Azimuthal correlations are stronger at larger transverse momenta. These are well described in perturbative QCD at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant, except at large azimuthal differences where contributions with low transverse momentum are significant.