TESTS OF PERTURBATIVE QCD AND JET PHYSICS

Abstract

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is a vast domain. In the past twelve months, no fewer than 473 papers with "QCD" in the title were submitted to the hep–ph archive (admittedly, this includes such titles as "Cosmological QCD Phase Transition and Dark Matter"). More relevant, perhaps, is to note that 93 QCD-related abstracts were submitted to the 1999 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS99). I shall therefore have to be selective, and will organize this presentation by final state: jets, photons, weak bosons, and heavy flavor. I would like to thank everyone who helped me put this presentation together, and extend my apologies to all those whose work had to be omitted or brutally summarized. I also ask the audience's indulgence for any biases from my particular background as a Tevatron experimenter.