Total hadronic cross-section of photon-photon interactions at LEP

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Abbiendi, G [1 ]
Ackerstaff, K
Alexander, G
Allison, J
Altekamp, N
Anderson, KJ
Anderson, S
Arcelli, S
Asai, S
Ashby, SF
Axen, D
Azuelos, G
Ball, AH
Barberio, E
Barillari, T
Barlow, RJ
Batley, JR
Baumann, S
Bechtluft, J
Behnke, T
Bell, KW
Bella, G
Bellerive, A
Bentvelsen, S
Bethke, S
Betts, S
Biebel, O
Biguzzi, A
Bloodworth, IJ
Bock, P
Böhme, J
Bonacorsi, D
Boutemeur, M
Braibant, S
Bright-Thomas, P
Brigliadori, L
Brown, RM
Burckhart, HJ
Capiluppi, P
Carnegie, RK
Carter, AA
Carter, JR
Chang, CY
Charlton, DG
Chrisman, D
Ciocca, C
Clarke, PEL
Clay, E
Cohen, I
Conboy, JE
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[1] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[3] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[4] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[6] Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[7] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[8] Carleton Univ, Ctr Res Particle Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[9] CERN, European Org Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[10] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[11] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[12] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[13] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[14] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[15] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[16] Tech Hsch Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[17] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[18] Univ Manchester, Schuster Lab, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[19] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[20] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[21] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[22] Rutherford Appleton Lab, CLRC, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[23] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[24] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[25] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[26] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[27] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[28] Brunel Univ, Inst Phys & Environm Sci, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[29] Weizmann Inst Sci, Particle Phys Dept, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[30] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Expt Phys 2, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[31] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
[32] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[33] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[34] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, Budapest, Hungary
[35] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[36] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[37] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[38] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[39] Univ Min & Met Krakow, Krakow, Poland
[40] Univ Debrecen, Dept Expt Phys, Debrecen, Hungary
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2000年 / 14卷 / 02期
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10.1007/s100520000352
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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The total hadronic cross-section sigma gamma gamma(W) for the interaction of real photons, gamma gamma --> hadrons, is measured for gamma gamma centre-of-mass energies 10 less than or equal to W less than or equal to 110 GeV. The cross-section is extracted from a measurement of the process e(+)e(-) --> e(+)e(-) gamma*gamma* --> e(+)e(-) + hadrons, using a luminosity function for the photon flux together with form factors for extrapolating to real photons (Q(2) = 0 GeV2). The data, were taken with the OPAL detector at LEP at e(+)e(-) centre-of-mass energies root s(ee) = 161, 172 and 183 GeV. The cross-section sigma gamma gamma (W) is compared with Regge factorisation and with the energy dependence observed in yp and pp interactions. The data are also compared to models which predict a faster rise of sigma gamma gamma(W) compared to gamma p and pp interactions due to additional hard gamma gamma interactions not present in hadronic collisions.
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