Measurement of dijet cross-sections in photoproduction and photon structure

Collaboration
Mar, 2000
20 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 483 (2000) 36-48
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DESY-00-035
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The production of hard di-jet events in photoproduction at HERA is dominated by resolved photon processes in which a parton in the photon with momentum fraction x γ is scattered from a parton in the proton. These processes are sensitive to the quark and gluon content of the photon. The differential di-jet cross-section d σ /dlog( x γ ) is presented here, measured in tagged photoproduction at HERA using data taken with the H1 detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.2 pb −1 . Using a restricted data sample at high transverse jet energy, E T,jet >6 GeV, the effective parton density f γ ,eff (x γ )= q(x γ )+ q ̄ (x γ )+9/4 g(x γ ) in the photon in leading order QCD is measured down to x γ = 0.05 from which the gluon density in the photon is derived.
Note:
  • 19 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables Report-no: DESY 00-035
  • positron p: colliding beams
  • photon p: interaction
  • photon: resolved
  • jet: photoproduction
  • final state: (2jet)
  • differential cross section: x-dependence
  • transverse energy: energy flow
  • correlation: (2jet)
  • photon: structure function
  • momentum spectrum: parton