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Carsten Peterson
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Assessing QCD in deep-inelastic eγ scattering
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Summary, in English
We consider hadron production in deep inelastic scattering of electrons on photons. 1. (i)Exploiting the leading order QCD corrections due to gluon bremsstrahlung we find that the photon structure functions rapidly approach their asymptotic form which can be calculated in QCD. 2. (ii)Replacing QCD by a theory with a fixed quark-gluon coupling constant (scalar or abelian gluons) gives dramatic changes: for Bjorken x away from 0, the asymptotic form of the structure function is scale-invariant, with a shape quite unlike the QCD shape, and the structure function diverges for x = 0. 3. (iii)The pointlike component of the photon gives final state jets emerging at large angles to the axis of the real + virtual photon, in contrast to the hadronic component of the photon.
Publishing year
1983-12-19
Language
English
Pages
301-316
Publication/Series
Nuclear Physics, Section B
Volume
229
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
North-Holland
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0550-3213