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Resolved Photon Processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-01 v1

Abstract

We review high--energy scattering processes that are sensitive to the hadronic structure of the photon, describing theoretical predictions as well as recent experimental results. These processes include deep--inelastic electron--photon scattering at \eplem\ colliders; and the production of jets, heavy quarks and isolated photons in the collision of real photons at \eplem\ colliders, as well as in photon--proton collisions at epep colliders. We also comment on ``minijet'' based calculations of total γp\gamma p and \gamgam\ cross--sections, and discuss the possibility that future linear \eplem\ colliders might produce very large photon fluxes due to the ``beamstrahlung'' phenomenon; in the most extreme cases, we predict more than one hadronic \gamgam\ event to occur at every bunch crossing.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9302256,
  title  = {Resolved Photon Processes},
  author = {Manuel Drees and Rohini M. Godbole},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9302256},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

50 pages, latex 23 figures (not included) , available by normal mail, needs equation.sty. added at the end here, BU-TH-92/5, TIFR/TH/92-70