The Photon structure from deep inelastic electron photon scattering

Dec, 1999
208 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rept. 332 (2000) 165-317
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The present knowledge of the structure of the photon is presented with emphasis on measurements of the photon structure obtained from deep inelastic electron-photon scattering at e+e- colliders. This review covers the leptonic and hadronic structure of quasi-real and also of highly virtual photons, based on measurements of structure functions and differential cross-sections. Future prospects of the investigation of the photon structure in view of the ongoing LEP2 programme and of a possible linear collider are addressed. The most relevant results in the context of measurements of the photon structure from photon-photon scattering at LEP and from photon-proton and electron-proton scattering at HERA are summarised.
Note:
  • 206 pages, 91 figures, 36 tables
  • review: experimental results
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron p: colliding beams
  • photon electron: deep inelastic scattering
  • photon: structure function
  • exchange: two-photon
  • photon photon: interaction
  • photon p: interaction
  • structure function: leptonic
  • structure function: hadronic