QCD radiative corrections to $\gamma^*\gamma^* \to$ hadrons

M. Cacciari; V. Del Duca; S. Frixione; Z. Trocsanyi

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/02/029

QCD radiative corrections to $\gamma^\gamma^ \to$ hadrons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Authors: M. Cacciari , V. Del Duca , S. Frixione , Z. Trocsanyi

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Abstract

We compute the order- $\as$ corrections to the total cross section and to jet rates for the process $\epem\to\epem +$ hadrons, where the hadrons are produced through crossed-channel quark exchange in the hard scattering of two off-shell photons originating from the incoming leptons. We use a next-to-leading order general-purpose partonic Monte Carlo event generator that allows the computation of a rate differential in the produced leptons and hadrons. We compare our results with the available experimental data for $\epem\to\epem +$ hadrons at LEP2.

Keywords

quantum chromodynamics corrections heavy quark production monte carlo event generator

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011368,
  title  = {QCD radiative corrections to $\gamma^*\gamma^* \to$ hadrons},
  author = {M. Cacciari and V. Del Duca and S. Frixione and Z. Trocsanyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011368},
  year   = {2009}
}

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25 pages Latex; 1 style file and 14 figures included