Jet cross sections at next-to-leading order

Abstract

We briefly summarize theoretical methods for carrying out QCD calculations to next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. In particular, we describe a new general algorithm that can be used for computing arbitrary jet cross sections in arbitrary processes and can be straightforwardly implemented in general-purpose Monte Carlo programs.

24 pages, 4 figures. Invited talk presented at the Cracow International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (CRAD96), Cracow, Poland, August 1996. This paper can also be obtained from http://surya11.cern.ch/users/seymour/pubs/crad.ps.Z