The structure function of a virtual photon, representing the physics of the hard scattering of an electron off a massive photon target resulting in a hadronic final state, has been measured in the kinematic range $1.5\le Q\sp2\le 5.5\ {\rm GeV}\sp2,\ 0.1\le P\sp2\le 1.5\ {\rm GeV}\sp2$ and $2\le W\le 20$ GeV. The measurement was done using the TPC/Two-Gamma detector facility and employs a heretofore unique method to determine the W of the final state by using information from both the visible mass of the final state as well as the mass reconstructed from the two lepton tags. The results are compared to a variety of models, and are found to be consistent with an incoherent sum of the QPM and VDM models. In addition, the structure function of the virtual photon has been measured in the kinematic range $10\le Q\sp2\le 50\ {\rm GeV}\sp2, 0.1\le P\sp2\le 1.5\ {\rm GeV}\sp2,$ a heretofore unexplored region. The results are somewhat high, though statistically consistent with being physically allowed. The results might indicate the presence of an interesting background, or perhaps physics that has not yet been accounted for in the comparison to model expectations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-8872 |
| Date | 01 January 1994 |
| Creators | Belcinski, Richard Joseph |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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