Photoproduction of single inclusive jets at future ep colliders in next-to-leading order QCD

A next-to-leading order QCD calculation for single-inclusive jet photoproduction in unpolarized and longitudinally polarized lepton-hadron collisions is presented which consistently includes direct and resolved photon contributions. The computation is performed within the small-cone approximation in a largely analytical form. Phenomenological aspects of jet production at future ep colliders such as the CERN Large Hadron electron Collider and the polarized Brookhaven National Laboratory eRHIC are discussed, placing particular emphasis on the perturbative stability of the predictions and the possibility to constrain the parton content of the photon.