@Article{Zaccagnini1998, Author = "A. Zaccagnini", Title = "Primes in almost all short intervals", Journal = "Acta Arith.", Volume = "84.3", Pages = "225--244", Year = 1998, Abstract = "We prove the estimate $J(x,h)=o\left(xh^2(\log x)^{-2} \right)$ for the Selberg integral $$ J(x,h) := \int_x^{2x} \left| \pi(t) - \pi(t-h) - \frac h{\log t} \right| ^2 \, dt, $$ when $h\ge x^{1/6-\varepsilon(x)}$, provided that $\varepsilon(x)\to0$ as $x\to+\infty$. The proof depends on an identity of Linnik and Heath-Brown which yields a suitable Dirichlet series decomposition for the quantity that we want to estimate. This is in a form that can be attacked by means of mean value theorems for Dirichlet series." }