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The accurate description of the internal structure of hadrons is a very challenging task. In order to compare the predictions with the highly-accurate experimental data, it is necessary to control any possible source of theoretical…
In deep inelastic electron-photon scattering in leading order QED, egamma->egamma*gamma->effbar, there are four non-zero structure functions. We calculate them for real photons retaining the full dependence on the fermion mass, and show…
The status of the measurements and the theoretical developments concerning the hadronic structure of the photon are briefly summarised.
The increasing precision of the measurements on the proton structure and an improved treatment of the correlated systematic experimental errors constitute a major step forward in our understanding of the flavour decomposition of the proton…
A simple model of a composite nucleon is developed in which a fermion and a boson, representing quark and diquark constituents of the nucleon, form a bound state owing to a contact interaction. Photon and pion couplings to the quark provide…
Power corrections to hadronic event shapes are estimated using a recently suggested relationship between perturbative and non-perturbative effects in QCD. The infrared cutoff dependence of perturbative calculations is related to…
We calculate the first moment of the photon structure function, $<x>^{\gamma}=\int^1_0 dx F^{\gamma}_2(x,Q^2)$, on the quenched lattices with $\beta=6.0$ using the formalism developed by the authors recently. In this exploratory study, we…
A review of recent jet measurements of the photon structure from the H1 experiment at HERA. The scale and the virtuality dependence of the effective parton distribution function of the photon is discussed.
We calculate the fragmentation function for a light quark to decay into a lepton pair to leading order in the QCD coupling constant. In the formal definition of the fragmentation function, a QED phase must be included in the eikonal factor…
The present knowledge of the structure of the photon is presented with emphasis on measurements of the photon structure obtained from deep inelastic electron-photon scattering at e+e- colliders. This review covers the leptonic and hadronic…
We explore the deep inelastic structure functions of hadrons nonperturbatively in an inverse power expansion of the light-front energy of the probe in the framework of light-front QCD. We arrive at the general expressions for various…
The structure of both quasi-real and highly virtual photons is investigated using the reaction e+e- -> e+e-mu+mu-, proceeding via the exchange of two photons. The results are based on the complete OPAL dataset taken at e+e- centre-of-mass…
Parameter-free and perturbatively stable leading order (LO) and next-to-leading order (NLO) parton densities for real and virtual photons are presented.
We analyse the data for the proton structure function $F_2$ over the entire $Q^2$ domain, including especially low $Q^2$, in terms of perturbative and non-perturbative QCD contributions. The small distance configurations are given by…
Experimental results on hadronic structures are discussed in view of our physics understanding. Achievements and challenges are noted.
Present data on the partonic content of the photon from LEP, TRISTAN and HERA accelerators are reviewed and the essential aspects of the underlying ideas and methods are pointed out. Results of the unpolarized photon structure function F_2…
This review covers the measurements of the QED and QCD structure of quasi-real and virtual photons from the reaction ee --> ee gamma* gamma(*) --> ee X.
We study the virtual photon structure functions from gauge/string duality. If the Bjorken variable x is not small, supergravity approximation becomes good in dual string theory. We calculate the virtual photon structure functions at large…
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A simple model for the hadronic contribution to the photon vacuum polarization function $\Pi_{had}(q^2)$, for spacelike momenta, is presented. For small momenta, the two loop contribution from the pseudoscalar meson octet is computed from…