Minijets, soft gluon resummation and photon cross-sections

2008/02/22 by Rohini M. Godbole, R. M. Godbole, A. Grau +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Antiproton #Bremsstrahlung #Cross section (physics) #Gluon #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Photon #Physics #Proton #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Resummation #Soft photon #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2008.09.143

published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.184:85-90,2008 · 7 pages, 5 figures. Presented at Photon2007, Paris, July 2007. Requires photon2007.cls

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Abstract

We compare the high energy behaviour of hadronic photon-photon cross-sections in different models. We find that the photon-photon cross-section appears to rise faster than the purely hadronic ones (proton-proton and proton-antiproton).

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