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The Extraction of the Gluon Density from Jet Production in Deeply Inelastic Scattering

D. Graudenz, M. Hampel, A. Vogt

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9609446

Abstract

The prospects of a direct extraction of the proton's gluon density in next-to-leading order via jet rates in deeply inelastic scattering are studied. The employed method is based on the Mellin transform, and can be applied, in principle, to all infra-red-safe observables of hadronic final states. We investigate the dependence of the error band on the extracted gluon distribution on the statistical and systematic error of the data.

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