Photon structure and quantum fluctuation
Sep, 200030 pages
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- Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond.A 359 (2001) 279-308
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- hep-ex/0009033 [hep-ex]
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- DESY-00-137
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Photon structure derives from quantum fluctuation in quantum field theory to fermion and anti-fermion, and has been an experimentally established feature of electrodynamics since the discovery of the positron. In hadronic physics, the observation of factorisable photon structure is similarly a fundamental test of the quantum field theory Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). An overview of measurements of hadronic photon structure in e+e- and ep interactions is presented, and comparison made with theoretical expectation, drawing on the essential features of photon fluctuation into quark and anti-quark in QCD.Note:
- 29 pages, 15 figures, to appear in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences)
- review: London 2000/05/24
- electron positron: colliding beams
- photon electron: interaction
- photon photon: interaction
- positron p: colliding beams
- photon p: interaction
- jet: photoproduction
- final state: (2jet)
- hadron: multiple production
- photon: structure function
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