Photon Structure and Quantum Fluctuation
Abstract
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.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0009033,
title = {Photon Structure and Quantum Fluctuation},
author = {John Dainton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0009033},
year = {2014}
}
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29 pages, 15 figures, to appear in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences)