Abstract
The photon is of course the gauge boson of QED, and is as far as we know elementary. When we measure photon “structure”, what we are in fact doing is probing the quantum fluctuations of the field theory. The photon couples - via a splitting into virtual, charged fermion-antifermion pairs - into the electroweak and strong interactions. Such behaviour is an important aspect of quantum field theories, and similar phenomena arise in many different situations. For example, the gluon splitting to quarks drives the scaling violations in hadronic structure. Studies of photon structure test our understanding of this behaviour. In this talk I give an overview of the current data and phenomenology, and outline some opportunities available in the medium term future.
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