Radiative Corrections to the Photon + 1 Jet Rate at LEP

Authors:
  • ARA. Gehrmann-De Ridder
    A. Gehrmann-De Ridder
  • TGT. Gehrmann
    T. Gehrmann
  • EGE. W. N. Glover
    E. W. N. Glover

Abstract
We present the results of a calculation of the rate for the annihilation of an $e^+e^-$ pair into a jet containing an energetic photon and a single further jet at order $\alpha \alpha_{s}$. By comparing these results with the existing data on the photon + 1 jet rate from the ALEPH Collaboration, we make a first determination of the process independent quark-to-photon fragmentation function $D_{q \to \gamma}(z,\mu_{F})$ at order $\alpha \alpha_{s}$. We also compare our prediction for the inclusive photon energy spectrum with the recent OPAL measurement.