We present a study of events with $Z$ bosons and hadronic jets produced in $\overline{p}p$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV. The data consist of 6708 $Z\to e^{+}{e}^{-}$ decays from $106{\mathrm{pb}}^{-1\mathrm{}}$ of integrated luminosity collected using the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The $Z+\ge n$ jet cross sections and jet production properties have been measured for $n=1\mathrm{}$ to 4. The data are compared to predictions of leading-order QCD matrix element calculations with added gluon radiation and simulated parton fragmentation.

• Received 7 March 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.448