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Effective QCD coupling and power corrections to photon-photon scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

The scattering of two off-shell photons is an infrared-safe process in QCD. For photon virtualities in the range of a few GeV, accessible at LEPII, power-behaved contributions to the total cross section may become non-negligible. Based on a dispersion relation for the running coupling, we discuss these contributions and calculate the coefficients of the leading power correction for transversely polarized and longitudinally polarized virtual photons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9710256,
  title  = {Effective QCD coupling and power corrections to photon-photon scattering},
  author = {F. Hautmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9710256},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures, Latex

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