Multiphoton Monte Carlo event generator for Bhabha scattering at small angles

Journal Article · Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · Physical Review (Section) D: Particles and Fields; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.40.3582· OSTI ID:7273822

Jadach, S ^[1]; Ward, B F.L. ^[2]

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1. Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland (PL) CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, (Switzerland) SLAC, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, California 94309 (USA)
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200 SLAC, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, California 94309 (USA)

We describe in this paper the application of the theory of Yennie, Frautschi, and Suura (YFS) to construct a Monte Carlo (MC) event generator with multiple-photon production for Bhabha scattering at low angles. The respective generator provides the four-momenta of the electron and positron and of all soft and hard photons with a proper treatment of the phase space and conservation of the total four-momentum. The final-state electron and positron are assumed to be visible above some minimum angle with respect to the beams (double tag). The QED matrix element in the algorithm is taken according to the YFS exponentiation scheme. The Monte Carlo program will be helpful in luminosity determination at experiments at the SLAC Linear Collider and the CERN collider LEP; it takes into account QED {ital O}({alpha}) and the leading higher-order corrections. The important difference with the existing MC procedures is that the minimum energy above which photons are generated may be set arbitrarily low. Sample Monte Carlo data are illustrated in our discussion.

• OSTI ID: 7273822
• Journal Information: Physical Review (Section) D: Particles and Fields; (USA), Vol. 40:11; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BHABHA SCATTERING
MONTE CARLO METHOD
ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION
DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS
LEP STORAGE RINGS
MATRIX ELEMENTS
MULTIPLE PRODUCTION
PHASE SPACE
PHOTONS
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
STANFORD LINEAR COLLIDER
TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS
ACCELERATOR FACILITIES
ACCELERATORS
CROSS SECTIONS
DISTRIBUTION
ELASTIC SCATTERING
ELECTRODYNAMICS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FIELD THEORIES
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MATHEMATICAL SPACE
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
SCATTERING
SPACE
STORAGE RINGS
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