The Hadronic Final States in Deep Inelastic $e\gamma$ Scattering at a Future e^+e^- Linear Collider
Abstract
Energy flow distributions from tagged $\gamma\gamma$ events generated with HERWIG are presented for $E_{beam} = 45.6$ GeV (LEP1) and $E_{beam} = 175$ GeV (top-quark threshold at a future e^+e^- Linear Collider). They have very similar shapes regardless of the beam energy. Using the present knowledge of the LEP $F_2^{\gamma}$ analyses, it is forseen that the understanding of the hadronic response of the forward region of the LC detector is vital to the development of the final state models in $\gamma\gamma$ Monte Carlos. Such models are relied upon to extract $F_2^{\gamma}$ from the data, and hence understanding the forward region well may be crucial in the determination of whether or not a low-$x$ rise exists in the photon structure function.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 1997
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-ex/9711019
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ex/9711019
- Bibcode:
- 1997hep.ex...11019W
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 5 pages. 1 postscript figures + 1 postscript preprint logo + 1 LaTeX file + 1 style file. Also available at http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/preprints/97/12/