Measurement of the Leptonic Structure Functions of the Photon at Pep
Abstract
At beam energies available at the PEP e('+)e(' -) storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center the cross-section for two-photon particle production is sufficiently large to warrant an investigation of this O((alpha)('4)) process. Of particular interest is the two-photon process ee (--->) ee(mu)(mu) at non-zero Q('2). This channel is not only relatively easy to observe experimentally but also serves as a model for the process ee (--->) eeqq. For the case of inelastic e(gamma) scattering the cross-section could be parameterized in terms of the photon structure functions F(,1)(x, Q('2)) and F(,2)(x, Q('2)). In this thesis I will present data on the process ee (--->) ee(mu)(mu) collected by the Two-Photon collaboration (PEP-9) at PEP. For the subset of data which proceeds by inelastic e(gamma) scattering I will present a procedure for extracting the QED photon structure functions and apply this method to the data.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984PhDT.......129C
- Keywords:
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- QED;
- Physics: Elementary Particles and High Energy