Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-12-22
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
PhD thesis, LaTeX, 164 pages
Scientific paper
In this thesis the polarized and unpolarized photon distributions of the nucleon (proton, neutron) $(\Delta)\gamma^N$, evaluated in the equivalent photon approximation (EPA), are computed theoretically and the possibility of their experimental determination is demonstrated. Both of them consist of two components: the elastic ones, $(\Delta)\gamma^N_{\rm el}$, due to $N\to \gamma N $, and the inelastic ones, $(\Delta)\gamma^N_{\rm inel}$, due to $N\to \gamma X$, with $X \neq N$. Special attention is devoted to the QED Compton process in $e N \to e \gamma N$ and $e N \to e \gamma X$, which is one of the most important reactions for directly measuring the photon content of the nucleon and testing the reliability of the EPA. Furthermore, it is discussed how such measurements can provide additional, independent informations concerning the usual polarized and unpolarized structure functions.
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