The Photon Content of the Proton

Manohar, Aneesh V.; Nason, Paolo; Salam, Gavin P.; Zanderighi, Giulia

doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2017)046

The Photon Content of the Proton

Aneesh V. Manohar
(
- UC, San Diego
)
,
Paolo Nason
(
- INFN, Milan Bicocca and
- Milan Bicocca U.
)
,
Gavin P. Salam
(
- CERN
)
,
Giulia Zanderighi
(
- CERN and
- Oxford U., Theor. Phys.
)

Aug 3, 2017

78 pages

Published in:

JHEP 12 (2017) 046

Published: Dec 11, 2017

e-Print:

1708.01256 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1007/JHEP12(2017)046

Report number:

CERN-TH-2017-141

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The photon PDF of the proton is needed for precision comparisons of LHC cross sections with theoretical predictions. In a recent paper, we showed how the photon PDF could be determined in terms of the electromagnetic proton structure functions F

_{2}

and F

_{L}

measured in electron-proton scattering experiments, and gave an explicit formula for the PDF including all terms up to next-to-leading order. In this paper we give details of the derivation. We obtain the photon PDF using the factorisation theorem and applying it to suitable BSM hard scattering processes. We also obtain the same PDF in a process-independent manner using the usual definition of PDFs in terms of light-cone Fourier transforms of products of operators. We show how our method gives an exact representation for the photon PDF in terms of F

_{2}

and F

_{L}

, valid to all orders in QED and QCD, and including all non-perturbative corrections. This representation is then used to give an explicit formula for the photon PDF to one order higher than our previous result. We also generalise our results to obtain formulæ for the polarised photon PDF, as well as the photon TMDPDF. Using our formula, we derive the P

_{γi}

subset of DGLAP splitting functions to order αα

_{s}

and α

^{2}

, which agree with known results. We give a detailed explanation of the approach that we follow to determine a photon PDF and its uncertainty within the above framework.

Note:

75 pages, 25 figures, data files corresponding to the figures available at http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.837233, LUXqed17 PDF files available in LHAPDF, references added in v2

Deep Inelastic Scattering (Phenomenology)
QCD Phenomenology
p: structure function
electron p: scattering
higher-order: 1
photon: structure function
quantum electrodynamics: perturbation theory
quantum chromodynamics
hard scattering
DGLAP equation

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