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QCD Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in DIS

Erwin Mirkes, Dieter Zeppenfeld

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9606332

Abstract

Next-to-leading order corrections to jet cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at HERA are studied. The predicted jet rates allow for a precise determination of αs(μR) at HERA over a wide range of μR. We argue, that the ``natural'' renormalization and factorization scale is set by the average kTB of the jets in the Breit frame and suggest to divide the data in corresponding <kTB> intervals. Some implications for the determination of the gluon density and the associated forward jet production in the low x regime at HERA are briefly discussed.

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