The photon structure from deep inelastic electron-photon scattering
Abstract
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 structure of quasi-real and also of highly virtual photons, based on measurements of structure functions and differential cross-sections. Future prospects of the investigation of the photon structure in view of the ongoing LEP2 programme and of a possible linear collider are addressed. The most relevant results in the context of measurements of the photon structure from photon-photon scattering at LEP and from photon-proton and electron-proton scattering at HERA are summarised.
- Publication:
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Physics Reports
- Pub Date:
- July 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0370-1573(99)00115-5
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ex/9912049
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhR...332..165N
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 206 pages, 91 figures, 36 tables