Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photons cross section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector using 4.6 fb-1

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Authors
  • G. Aad
  • [Unknown] et al.
  • R. Aben
  • L.J. Beemster
Publication date 2014
Journal Physical Review D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Article number 052004
Volume | Issue number 89 | 5
Number of pages 24
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract
A measurement of the cross section for the production of isolated prompt photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy √s = 7  TeV is presented. The results are based on an integrated luminosity of 4.6  fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The cross section is measured as a function of photon pseudorapidity ηγ and transverse energy EγT in the kinematic range 100 ≤ EγT < 1000 GeV and in the regions |ηγ | < 1.37 and 1.52 ≤ |ηγ| < 2.37. The results are compared to leading-order parton-shower Monte Carlo models and next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. Next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations agree well with the measured cross sections as a function of EγT and ηγ.
Document type Article
Note ATLAS Collaboration
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.052004
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