IMPROVED WEIZSACKER-WILLIAMS METHOD AND ITS APPLICATION TO LEPTON AND W BOSON PAIR PRODUCTION

Apr, 1973
54 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 8 (1973) 3109
Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-1106-rev,
  • SLAC-PUB-1106

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Abstract: (APS)
A Weizsäcker-Williams method is derived which handles the elastic and inelastic target from factors properly. The method is applied to calculate energy-angle distributions of photoproduced lepton pairs: electrons, muons, and heavy leptons, using target form factors appropriate to each case. The agreement with the exact result is found to be excellent. Simple formulas for pair production of spin-0 and spin-1 particles are also given.