Jets and event topologies at the SSC

Jets and event topologies in pp collisions at W = 40 TeV are studied using a QCD parton-shower Monte-Carlo model. The model includes gluon radiation both in the initial and final states and the hadrons are labeled according to whether they result from beam and target fragmentation or from outgoing parton fragmentation. Transverse energy grids are defined with emphasis, not on jet finding, but on the patterns of energy deposition. These patterns are quantified by examining the multiplicity of transverse energy clusters each of which have E/sub T/ greater than some fixed amount, E/sub T//sup each/. Large global transverse energy events are dominated by two large E/sub T/ clusters, but it is not uncommon to find, say, four clusters with E/sub T//sup each/ > 100 GeV. The large event-by-event fluctuations expected from QCD are investigated. 21 references