High pTp_T Hadron Production in Photon - Photon Collisions

Collaboration
Aug, 1981
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 107 (1981) 290-296
  • Published: 1981
Report number:
  • DESY-81-053
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We have studied the properties of hadron production in photon-photon scattering with tagged photons at the e + e − storage ring PETRA. A tail in the p T distribution of particles consistent with p T −4 has been observed. We show that this tail cannot be due to the hadronic part of the photon. Selected events with high p T particles are found to be consistent with a two-jet structure as expected from a point-like coupling of the photons to quarks. The lowest-order cross section predicted for γγ → q q , σ = 3 Σ e q 4 · σ γγ → μμ , is approached from above by the data at large transverse momenta.
  • ELECTRON POSITRON: COLLIDING BEAMS
  • COLLIDING BEAMS: ELECTRON POSITRON
  • ELECTRON POSITRON: INCLUSIVE REACTION
  • EXCHANGE: TWO-PHOTON
  • TWO-PHOTON: EXCHANGE
  • PHOTON PHOTON: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: PHOTON PHOTON
  • TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM: HIGH
  • HADRON: MULTIPLE PRODUCTION
  • MULTIPLE PRODUCTION: HADRON