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The cross-section for the process $\gamma + A \to \mu^+ + \mu^- + X$ is studied where the photon energy is of the order of several hundreds of GeV and where one of the leptons is scattered to large angles. This is of practical importance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Gerhard Baur , Albrecht Leuschner

We develop the full finite lepton mass formalism for the production of real photons via the Bethe-Heitler reaction of unpolarized leptons off unpolarized nucleons. Genuine lepton mass effects are described, in particular their dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 M. B. Barbaro , C. Maieron , E. Voutier

We study the lepton pair production in the photodisintegration of the deuteron process. The complete seven-fold differential cross section is calculated via the Bethe-Heitler mechanism with final state interactions taken into account. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-20 Mengchu Cai , Tianbo Liu , Bo-Qiang Ma

Process of lepton pair production by polarized photon on nuclei can be used to measure the degree of linear polarization of high energy photon. The differential cross section and the analyzing power are calculated with taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bakmaev , E. A. Kuraev , I. Shapoval , Yu. P. Peresunko

The ''twin birth'' of a positron and an electron by a photon in the presence of a nucleus, known as Bethe-Heitler pair production, is a key process in astroparticle physics. The Bethe-Heitler process offers a way of channeling energy stored…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Despina Karavola , Maria Petropoulou

The effects of polarization transfer from the initial electron to the bremsstrahlung photon in electron-nucleus scattering (Bethe-Heitler process) are considered. The calculation is carried out without the assumption of smallness of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yu. M. Bystritskiy , V. A. Zykunov

We investigate the sensitivity of the cross section for lepton pair production off a deuteron target, $\gamma d \to l^+ l^- d$, to the deuteron charge radius. We show that for small momentum transfers the Bethe-Heitler process dominates,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 Carl E. Carlson , Vladyslav Pauk , Marc Vanderhaeghen

The creation of lepton pairs ($e^+e^-$ and $\mu^+\mu^-$) via multiphoton absorption in collisions of ultrarelativistic ion beams with ultrashort high-frequency laser pulses is considered. Both the free and the bound-free production channels…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Carsten Müller

The main possibilities of investigation of leptons and bosons birth in interaction of polarized photons are considered. The usage of $\gamma \gamma \to f \bar{f} [+\gamma]$ reactions for the luminosity measurement on linear photon collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Shishkina

Production of lepton pairs in gamma p -> e-e+ p reaction is studied at photon energies up to 1 GeV. We show that even if lepton charge is not measured there are extensive kinematical regimes where the nuclear process dominates over the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Yu. Korchin , O. Scholten

The ratio of di-lepton production cross sections on a proton, using the $\gamma p\rightarrow l^+ l^- p$ process, above and below di-muon production threshold allows to extract the effective lepton-proton interaction, which is required to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-23 Matthias Heller , Oleksandr Tomalak , Marc Vanderhaeghen , Shihao Wu

We propose to access the gluon polarization $\Delta G$ by measuring the cross section spin-asymmetry in semi-inclusive polarized lepton -- nucleon scattering. The photon-gluon fusion sub-process will be tagged by detecting high-$p_T$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Bravar , D. von Harrach , A. Kotzinian

We describe a new way to access the chiral odd transversity parton distribution in the proton through the photoproduction of lepton pairs on transversely polarized target. The basic ingredient is the interference of the Bethe Heitler or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 B. Pire , L. Szymanowski

Coherent production of lepton pair in muon scattering by nucleus is considered. With the help of different approaches (equivalent photon approximation, direct numerical and analytical calculations) we obtain total cross section of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-27 A. V. Berezhnoy , S. N. Koshkarev , A. V. Luchinsky , V. I. Nikolaenko

We derive generic formulas for the polarization density matrix of leptons produced in neutrino and antineutrino collisions and briefly consider some important particular cases. Next we employ the general formalism in order to include the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Konstantin S. Kuzmin , Vladimir V. Lyubushkin , Vadim A. Naumov

Generation of arbitrarily spin-polarized lepton (here refer in particular to electron and positron) beams has been investigated in the single-shot interaction of high-energy polarized $\gamma$ photons with an ultraintense asymmetric laser…

In this paper we examine the pair production through the Breit-Wheeler process $\gamma~\gamma \to e^+ e^-$ in a thermal background. We compute the thermal contribution to the Breit-Wheeler differential cross section within the thermofield…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-23 D. S. Cabral , A. F. Santos , R. Bufalo

The gluon polarisation in the nucleon has been determined by detecting charm production via D0 meson decay to charged K and pi in polarised muon scattering off a longitudinally polarised deuteron target. The data were taken by the COMPASS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-07-30 COMPASS Collaboration , M. Alekseev

We show that lepton-pair production in Virtual Compton Scattering offers, through interference with the well-known Bethe-Heitler process, a sensitive probe to learn the longitudinal response of resonances and the electromagnetic nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 A. Yu. Korchin , O. Scholten , F. de Jong

The interaction of an unpolarized electron beam with a counterpropagating ultraintense linearly polarized laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. We employ a semiclassical Monte Carlo method to describe…

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