New Parton Distribution Functions for the Photon
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-07-19 v1
Abstract
We present new improved parton distributions for the photon. We fit {\bf all} available data on the photon structure function, , with GeV, in order to determine the quark distributions. We also pay particular attention to the gluon distribution in the photon, , which has been poorly constrained in earlier analyses which only include structure function data. We use large jet production in collisions from TRISTAN to constrain . We also see what information can be gleaned from collisions at HERA on and on the quark distributions at large , where there are no structure function data. We review future prospects of elucidating the parton distributions of the photon.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9607370,
title = {New Parton Distribution Functions for the Photon},
author = {L. E. Gordon and J. K. Storrow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9607370},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
33 pages, 8 figures, uses epsf