Speaker
Dhevan Raja Gangadharan
(University of Houston (US))
Description
Luminosity is an essential quantity to measure the cross section of any process. At the Electron Ion Collider (EIC), it will be measured using the Bethe-Heitler process in which a real photon is radiated in the electron-ion (p or A) scattering: e + p(A) → e + p(A) + Ɣ. The cross section is very large with respect to DIS and can be precisely calculated in leading-order QED, as was done by Bethe and Heitler for unpolarized beams of particles. The EIC will operate with polarized electron and ion beams, thereby requiring a calculation of the spin-dependent modifications to the cross section. A calculation of the polarized Bethe-Heitler cross section is presented.
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Primary author
Dhevan Raja Gangadharan
(University of Houston (US))
