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Publications and source records attributed to Thorsten Wengler.
The ATLAS experiment has been taking data efficiently since LHC collisions started, first at the injection energy of 450 GeV/beam and at 1.18 TeV/beam in 2009, then at 3.5 TeV/beam in 2010. Many results have already been obtained based on this data demonstrating the performance of the detector, as well as first physics measurements. Only a selection of highlights will be presented here.
Hadronic interactions of two quasi-real photons have been studied extensively both during the LEP1 and the LEP2 data taking periods. The higher energies available at LEP2 in particular opened regions of phase space where hadronic processes can be predicted reliably by perturbative QCD calculations, usually available to next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant for the process concerned. Over a wide range of observables and phase space good agreement is observed between measurements and theory, however, there are a few exceptions. The L3 collaboration has found large discrepancies for high momentum particle and jet production between theory and experiment, and measurements of open b-quark production by DELPHI, L3, and OPAL are consistently in excess of the theoretical values. Three new measurements have now become available and will be discussed in this paper: on jet and hadron production by OPAL and open beauty production by ALEPH.
Jet and particle production have been studied in collisions of quasi-real photons collected during the LEP2 program. OPAL and DELPHI report good agreement of NLO perturbative QCD with the measured differential di-jet cross sections, which reach a mean transverse energy of the di-jet system of 25 GeV. L3, on the other hand, finds drastic disagreement of the same calculation with single jet production for transverse jet momenta larger than about 25 GeV. L3 observes similar disagreement between data and NLO QCD in their measurements of charged and neutral particle production at high transverse momenta of the particles. A recent measurement performed by DELPHI of the same quantities does not confirm this observation.
I review recent QCD results from LEP. The emphasis is on results that represent new studies and on puzzling disagreements of theory and experiment. Further results are nevertheless mentioned by reference. The new studies discussed in more detail are the most precise measurement of unbiased gluon jets to date, strong evidence of color coherence in 3-jet events, and an, albeit unsuccessful, search for penta-quarks. As yet unexplained disagreements are observed in photon-photon collisions for high momentum charged particle and single jet production, and for the total cross section of b-quark production.
Di-jet production is studied in collisions of quasi-real photons at e+e- centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV at LEP. The data were collected with the OPAL detector. The structure of jets is investigated and differential cross sections are measured and compared to QCD calculations.
Jet and di-jet production are studied in collisions of quasi-real photons collected during the LEP2 program at e+e- center-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV. OPAL reports good agreement of NLO perturbative QCD with the measured differential di-jet cross sections, which reach a mean transverse energy of the di-jet system of 25 GeV. L3, on the other hand, finds drastic disagreement of the same calculation with single jet production for transverse jet momenta larger than about 25 GeV.
The performance of QCD in describing hadronic photon-photon collisions is investigated in the light of recent measurements from LEP on di-jet production, light hadron transverse momentum spectra, and heavy quark production.
A study of di-jet measurements at a future photon collider is reported. The sensitivity to extract the gluon distribution is discussed. The results are compared with calculations for a linear e+e- collider.
The hadronic interactions of the photon are studied in terms of new measurements of the total hadronic cross section and di-jet production in photon-photon collisions at LEP2.
The structure of the photon is studied in photon-photon collisions at LEP. New measurements have become available exploring the structure function F2g of the photon to the lowest values of x yet, where the hadronic component of the photon is most important. Inclusive cross sections for charged D* have been measured as a function of their transverse momenta and are used to test the validity of perturbative QCD in NLO in this region. The total charm quark production cross section is extracted. For the first time the inclusive production of D* mesons in deep inelastic electron-photon scattering has been used to extract the charm structure function of the photon. A first sign of beauty production in photon-photon collisions is reported.
The production of high transverse momentum piz^0-mesons has been measured in deep-inelastic e-p scattering events at low Bjorken-$x$ taken with the H1 detector at HERA. The production of high p_T particles is strongly correlated to the emission of hard partons in QCD and is therefore sensitive to the dynamics of the strong interaction. For the first time the measurement of single particles has been extended to the region of small angles w.r.t. the proton remnant (forward region) and down to very low values of x ~ 5x10^-5. This region is expected to be particularly sensitive to QCD evolution effects in final states. Differential cross sections of inclusive pi^0-meson production have been measured as a function of Bjorken-x and the four-momentum transfer Q^2, and also as a function of the transverse momentum and the polar angle of the pi^0-mesons. A recent BFKL calculation and QCD models based on the DGLAP splitting functions are compared to the data. The best description of the data is achieved by the BFKL calculation.