Eur. Phys. J. C 19, 15-28
DOI: 10.1007/s100520100592
Study of dimuon production in photon-photon collisions and measurement of QED photon structure functions at LEP
The DELPHI CollaborationP. Abreu22 and et al.
22 LIP, IST, FCUL - Av. Elias Garcia, 14-1o, 1000 Lisboa Codex, Portugal
(Received: 23 February 2000 / Revised version: 7 December 2000 / Published online: 23 February 2001 -© Springer-Verlag 2001)
Abstract
Muon pair production in the process
is studied using the data taken at LEP1 (
)
with the DELPHI detector during the years 1992-1995. The corresponding
integrated
luminosity is 138.5 pb-1. The QED predictions have been tested over
the whole Q2 range accessible at LEP1 (from several GeV2/c4 to
several hundred GeV2/c4) by comparing experimental distributions
with distributions resulting from Monte Carlo simulations using various
generators.
Selected events are used to extract the leptonic photon structure
function
.
Azimuthal correlations are used to obtain information on additional
structure functions,
and
, which originate from
interference terms of the scattering amplitudes. The measured ratios
and
are significantly
different from zero and consistent with QED predictions.
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