Photon 2001, Procs Of The Intl Conf On The Structure And Interactions Of The Photon Including The 14th Intl Workshop On Photon-photon Collisions

Photon 2001, Procs Of The Intl Conf On The Structure And Interactions Of The Photon Including The 14th Intl Workshop On Photon-photon Collisions
Author: Maria-novella Kienzle-focacci
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2002-07-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814488232

This volume reports on all aspects of high energy photon interactions using both photon and proton targets. Significant new results from the LEP and HERA experiments as well as from CLEO II and BELLE are presented. These data are confronted with diverse theoretical models. In particular, predictions of QCD in both the perturbative and the non-perturbative sector are extensively discussed. The prospects for gamma-gamma physics at future high energy colliders are also reviewed. In total 72 papers are collected.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

Measurement of the Cross Section for Production of Prompt Diphoton in Proton Anti-proton Collisions at {u221A}s

Measurement of the Cross Section for Production of Prompt Diphoton in Proton Anti-proton Collisions at {u221A}s
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Total Pages: 147
Release: 2004
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This thesis presents the measurement of prompt diphoton production rate in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II). This process deserves some attention for the following reasons. The H → ?? decay mode is an important channel for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson searches in the low mass region (MH 130 GeV) at the forth coming LHC. In many models involving physics beyond the SM, cascade decays of heavy new particles generate a ?? signature. Some examples are supersymmetry with a light gravitino, radiative decays to a higgsino-LSP and models with large symmetry groups. The QCD production of prompt photon pairs with large invariant mass is the irreducible background to these searches. The rate is huge and requires to be quantitatively evaluated prior to any of the possible discoveries. In a hadronic collider environment such as LHC, prompt photon signals are contaminated by the production of neutral mesons which decay to multiple collinear photons. The experience of classifying background of neutral meson is very important. The process can be used to test the Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) calculation of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The 4-momentum of particles in the di-photon final state can be precisely determined due to the fine energy resolution of the electromagnetic calorimeters. The imbalance in the transverse momentum of the two photons reflects the transverse motion of the colliding partons. At collider energies, most of the transverse momentum of the incoming partons can be attributed to multiple soft gluon emissions prior to the collision, of which the effect to di-photon production can be resummed by Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) formalism. The Tevatron data can be used to test the resummation formalisms. They have used 207 pbsup-1

New Aspects of High-Energy Proton-Proton Collisions

New Aspects of High-Energy Proton-Proton Collisions
Author: A. Ali
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461595401

Articles focus on the planned European proton-proton collider, and concentrate on physics issues, rather than the more technical concerns addressed in the three previous workshops. The use of energies much higher than those of the American Superconducting Super Collider is featured. Topics include reviews of current projects, hadron collisions, lep