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The inclusive production of charged hadrons in the collisions of quasi-real photons e+e- -> e+e- +X has been measured using the OPAL detector at LEP. The data were taken at e+e- centre-of-mass energies from 183 to 209 GeV. The differential…
This paper investigates the electromagnetic production of lepton pairs with low transverse momentum in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We estimate the initial photons' transverse momentum contributions by employing models where the…
I present an overview of photon and dilepton production in heavy-ion collisions, highlighting recent progress and ongoing challenges, with focus on hard initial scatterings, pre-equilibrium electromagnetic emission, as well as thermal and…
The total and differential cross sections of the process e+e- -> n gamma with n >= 2 are measured using data collected by the L3 experiment at centre-of-mass energies of \sqrt{s}=183 and 189 GeV. The results are in agreement with the…
A review is given on photon-hadron and photon-photon collisions in the ALICE experiment. The physics motivation for studying such reactions is outlined, and the results obtained in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions in Run 1 of the LHC…
An overview is given of the ongoing measurement at HERA of the parton structure of the photon, as a function of its virtuality. Preliminary ZEUS results show disagreement with an NLO QCD calculation.
Some selected topics in photoproduction are reviewed. In particular, the focus is on quasi-real photon-proton scattering as measured at HERA. Single & dijet rates and jet profiles are discussed, as are open charm production and inelastic…
We review the theoretical framework of jet photoproduction at HERA discussing the conceptual ideas, phenomenological models, and higher order perturbative calculations. Numerically, we study the physically interesting distribution of…
The production of jets is studied in collisions of virtual photons, gamma*-p and gamma*-gamma*, specifically for applications at HERA and LEP2. Photon flux factors are convoluted with matrix elements involving either direct or resolved…
The production of jets is studied in collisions of virtual photons, gamma*-p and gamma*-gamma*, specifically for applications at HERA and LEP2. Photon flux factors are convoluted with matrix elements involving either direct or resolved…
A significant fraction of pp collisions at the LHC will involve (quasi-real) photon interactions occurring at energies well beyond the electroweak energy scale. Hence, the LHC can to some extend be considered as a high-energy photon-photon…
I summarize and discuss some of the experimental results on the low and intermediate mass dileptons and direct photons presented at Quark Matter 2014.
The concept of the structure of the photon is discussed and the progress in the measurement of various structure functions of the photon as well of parton distributions in the photon is shortly reviewed.
We discuss virtual photon scattering in the region dominated by BFKL exchange and report results for the cross sections at present and future e+ e- colliders.
We present our analysis on the photon structure functions at small Bjorken variable x in the framework of the holographic QCD. In the kinematic region, a photon can fluctuate into vector mesons and behaves like a hadron rather than a…
We study the effects of virtual leptoquark exchange on charged current and neutral current processes at HERA, on di-lepton production at the Tevatron, and on quark pair production at LEP II. We present the areas of parameter space that can…
The single-differential and fully integrated cross sections for quasifree $\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ electroproduction off protons bound in deuterium have been extracted for the first time. The experimental data were collected at Jefferson Laboratory…
We present a short overview over the different contributions to high energy photon photon scattering and explore the possibilities of tuning the sizes of the scattered objects by changing the virtuality of the photons. We compare the…
The production of a hard and isolated photon accompanied by one or two jets in large-Q2 deep inelastic ep scattering is calculated at next-to-leading order. We include consistently contributions from quark-to-photon fragmentation and study…
We have observed highly virtual ($Q^2>1.05 GeV^2$) photon-photon collisions to hadronic final states at $\sqrt{s_{e^+e^-}}=58 GeV$. The integrated luminosity of the data sample was 241pb$^{-1}$. Both scattered beam-electrons and scattered…