Jet energy correction in CMS

Many physics measurements in CMS will rely on the precise reconstruction of jets. Correction of the raw jet energy measured by the CMS detector will be a fundamental step for most of the analysis where hadron activity is investigated. Jet correction plans in CMS have been widely studied for different conditions: at stat-up simulation tuned on test-beam data will be used. Then data-driven methods will be available and finally, simulation tuned on collision data will give us the ultimate procedure for calculating jet corrections. Jet transverse energy is corrected first for pile-up and noise offset; correction for the response of the calorimeter as a function of jet pseudorapidity relative to the barrel comes afterwards and correction for the absolute response as a function of transverse momentum in the barrel is the final standard sub-correction applied. Other effects like flavour and parton correction will be optionally applied on the Jet E
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depending on the measurement requests. In this paper we discuss the actual status of the complete CMS correction procedure with a particular focus on the data-driven methods applied to calorimeter jets: the main backgrounds and potential biases are discussed together with initial estimates of the systematic uncertainties.