Total Hadronic Cross-Section for Photon-Photon Interactions at LEP

Abstract

The total hadronic cross-section for the interaction of real photons is extracted from a measurement of the cross-section of the process e+e->e+e- + hadrons using a luminosity function for the photon flux and form factors for extrapolating to Q**2=0. The data was taken with the OPAL detector at LEP at e+e- centre-of-mass energies of 161 GeV and 172 GeV. In the energy range 10 < W < 110 GeV the total hadronic photon-photon cross-section is consistent with the Regge behaviour of the total cross-section observed in γp and hadron-hadron interactions.

7 pages, 7 figues, needs espcrc2.sty, to be published in proceedings of the XXVII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIPARTICLE DYNAMICS, INFN, Frascati (Rome), Italy, 8-12 September 1997

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