Real and Virtual Photoproduction of Large-pt Particles at NLO

Abstract

In the first part of this paper we assess the possibility of observing the gluon distribution in a real photon by measuring the photoproduction cross section of large-pt photons. In the second part we calculate the virtual photoproduction of large-pt forward pi0. The theoretical results are compared with data and with BFKL-inspired predictions. These studies are done at the NLO approximation.

Latex, 8 pages with 4 figures

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• Isolated photon + jet photoproduction as a tool to constrain the gluon distribution in the proton and the photon
• An NLO calculation of the electroproduction of large-E_\bot hadrons

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Inclusive Production of Single Hadrons with Finite Transverse Momenta in Deep-Inelastic Scattering at Next-to-Leading Order