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.
Kinematic properties of four-jet events produced in collisions at TeV have been studied using data with an integrated luminosity of 325 collected using the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 1988-1989 Fermilab Collider run. The individual jet spectra and the angles between each jet pair are compared to the predictions of leading-order quantum chromodynamics for the double gluon bremsstrahlung process and good agreement is observed. In addition, a search for double parton scattering has been undertaken using variables sensitive to the topology of four-jet events. A small double parton content provides the best description of the data. We find , where represents the number of events attributed to each process. We measure nb for jets having GeV/c in the pseudorapidity interval .
Inclusive J/ψ and ψ(2S) production has been studied in p¯p collisions at √s =1.8 TeV using 2.6±0.2 of data taken with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The products of production cross section times branching fraction were measured as functions of for J/ψ→ and ψ(2S)→ . In the kinematic range >6 GeV/c and ‖η‖≤0.5 we get σ(p¯p→J/ψ X)B(J/ψ→ ) =6.88±0.23(stat(syst) nb, and σ(p¯p→ψ(2S)X)B(ψ(2S)→ ) =0.232±0.051(stat(syst)nb. From these values we calculate the inclusive b-quark production cross section.
We present measurements of the pseudorapidity () distribution of charged particles () produced within in proton-antiproton collisions at of 630 and 1800 GeV. We measure at to be 3.18±0.06(stat)±0.10(syst) at 630 GeV, and 3.95±0.03 (stat)±0.13(syst) at 1800 GeV. Many systematic errors in the ratio of at the two energies cancel, and we measure 1.26±0.01±0.04 for the ratio of at 1800 GeV to that at 630 GeV within . Comparing to lower-energy data, we observe an increase faster than in at .
Measurements of inclusive transverse-momentum spectra for charged particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at √2 of 630 and 1800 GeV are presented and compared with data taken at lower energies.