Testing the Equivalent Photon Approximation of the Proton in the Process $ep\to \nu WX$

Abstract

The accuracy of the equivalent photon approximation (EPA) of the proton in describing the inelastic process $ep\to \nu WX$ is investigated. In particular, the scale dependence of the corresponding inelastic photon distribution is discussed. Furthermore, an estimate of the total number of events, including the ones coming from the elastic and quasi-elastic channels of the reaction, is given for the HERA collider.

Revised version, one reference added, to appear in EPJ

References in corpus (6)

• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (in "The Review of Particle Properties" 2004)
• The Polarized and Unpolarized Photon Content of the Nucleon
• Isolated electrons and muons in events with missing transverse momentum at HERA
• Manifestly Covariant Analysis of the QED Compton Process in $ep\to e\gamma p$ and $ep\to e\gamma X$
• Delineating the polarized and unpolarized photon distributions of the nucleon in eN collisions
• Accessing the Longitudinally Polarized Photon Content of the Proton

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