Abstract

Abstract The inclusive production cross sections for forward jets, as well for jets in dijet events with at least one jet emitted at central and the other at forward pseudorapidities, are measured in the range of transverse momenta p T = 35-150 GeV/c in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7 $ TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Forward jets are measured within pseudorapidities 3.2 < |η| < 4.7, and central jets within the |η| < 2.8 range. The differential cross sections d 2 σ/dp T dη are compared to predictions from three approaches in perturbative quantum chromodynamics: (i) next-to-leading-order calculations obtained with and without matching to parton-shower Monte Carlo simulations, (ii) pythia and herwig parton-shower event generators with different tunes of parameters, and (iii) cascade and hej models, including different non-collinear corrections to standard single-parton radiation. The single-jet inclusive forward jet spectrum is well described by all models, but not all predictions are consistent with the spectra observed for the forward-central dijet events.

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  • GeV/c in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC

  • D6T and Z2 tunes [24, 51], pythia 8 with Tune 1 [25], herwig 6 [26] with underlying-event modelled with Jimmy [27], and herwig++ [28], (ii) NLO calculations obtained with the powheg package [52] as well as with nlojet++ [29] within the fastNLO [53] package, for different sets of parton densities, and (iii) the cascade [54, 55] and hej [34, 35] codes

  • The pythia and herwig Monte Carlo event generators are based on standard collinear (DGLAP) evolution, where the parton shower can be developed by ordering the parton splittings in parameterised function f (pT) or in virtuality Q2. herwig uses angular ordering for shower evolution

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Introduction

The type of dijet final states studied in this analysis provides information on multi-parton production processes with large separations in pseudorapidity whose theoretical description involves multiple scales and possibly large logarithmic contributions. Such event topologies may show deviations from the parton radiation patterns expected from the standard Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) evolution equations [8,9,10,11], as modelled in the approaches of e.g. Balitski-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) [12,13,14], Ciafaloni-Catani-Fiorani-Marchesini (CCFM) [15,16,17,18], or gluon saturation [19].

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