Abstract
Interactions of virtual photons are analyzed in terms of photon structure. It is argued that the concept of parton distribution functions is phenomenologically very useful even for virtual photons involved in hard collisions. This claim is illustrated on leading order expressions for and the effective parton distribution function relevant for jet production in collisions, as well as within the next-to-leading order QCD calculations of jet cross sections in collisions.
- Received 10 May 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.114025
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