DOI 10.1007/s100529900047
-photoproduction and the gluon structure of the nucleon
D. Kharzeev1 - H. Satz2 - A. Syamtomov3 - G. Zinovjev2,3
1 Riken/BNL Institute, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
2 Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
3 Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, UA-252143 Kiev, Ukraine
Received: 3 March 1999 / Published online: 28 May 1999
Abstract
Using short distance QCD methods based on the operator product
expansion,
we calculate the photoproduction cross section in terms of the gluon
distribution function of the nucleon. Comparing the result with data,
we show that experimental behaviour of the cross section correctly
reflects the x-dependence of the gluon distribution obtained from
deep inelastic scattering.
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