Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Dainton John 2001Photon structure and quantum fluctuationPhil. Trans. R. Soc. A.359279–308http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2000.0727SectionRestricted accessPhoton structure and quantum fluctuation John Dainton John Dainton Oliver Lodge Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Oxford Street, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK () Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author John Dainton John Dainton Oliver Lodge Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Oxford Street, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK () Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:15 February 2001https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2000.0727AbstractPhoton structure derives from quantum fluctuation in quantum field theory to fermion and anti-fermion, and has been an experimentally established feature of electrodynamics since the discovery of the positron. In hadronic physics, the observation of factorizable photon structure is similarly a fundamental test of the quantum field theory quantum chromodynamics (QCD). An overview of measurements of hadronic photon structure in e+e− and ep interactions is presented, and comparison made with theoretical expectation, drawing on the essential features of photon fluctuation into quark and antiquark in QCD. Previous ArticleNext Article VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetails This Issue15 February 2001Volume 359Issue 1779Discussion Meeting Issue ‘The quark structure of matter’ organized by I. Butterworth, J. Ellis and E. Gabathuler Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2000.0727Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:1364-503XOnline ISSN:1471-2962History: Published online15/02/2001Published in print15/02/2001 License: Citations and impact KeywordsstructureQCDtwo–photon physicsphotoproductionjetsphoton