Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section using the k(T) algorithm in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV

We report on a measurement of the inclusive jet production cross section as a function of the jet transverse momentum in p (p) over bar collisions at root s =1.96 TeV using data collected with the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab in run II, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 385 pb(-1). The measurement is carried out for jets with rapidity 0.1 <vertical bar y(jet)vertical bar < 0.7 and transverse momentum in the range 54 < p(T)(jet)< 700 GeV/c. Next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions are in good agreement with the measured cross section after the necessary nonperturbative parton-to-hadron corrections are included.