Year: 1998
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We estimate the benefit of muon colliders for photon physics. We calculate the rate at which photons are emitted from muon beams in different production mechanisms. Bremsstrahlung is reduced, beamstrahlung disappears, and laser backscattering suffers from a bad conversion of the incoming to the outgoing photon beam in addition to requiring very short wavelengths. As a consequence, the cross sections for jet photoproduction in $\\mu p$ and $\\mu^+\\mu^-$ collisions are reduced by factors of 2.2 and 5 compared to $ep$ and $e^+e^-$ machines. However, the cross sections remain sizable and measurable giving access to the photon and proton parton densities down to $x$ values of $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-4}$.
DOI: 10.1063/1.56178
Author: Michael Klasen
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2080426805
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