Abstract
We present a measurement of the total cross section for hadrons, with one photon quasireal and the other a spacelike photon of mass squared -Q2. Results are presented as a function of Q2 and the center-of-mass energy W, with the Q2 range extending from 0.2 to 60 GeV2, and W in the range from 2 to 10 GeV. The data were taken with the TPC/Two-Gamma facility at the SLAC e+e- storage ring PEP, which was operated at a beam energy of 14.5 GeV. The cross section exhibits a gentle falloff with increasing W. Its Q2 dependence is shown to be well described by an incoherent sum of vector-meson and pointlike scattering over most of the observed W range. Agreement at high Q2 is improved if a minimum-pT cutoff (motivated by QCD) is imposed on the pointlike contribution.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2667-2674 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1990 |