Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in pp collisions at s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2016)005

Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in pp collisions at s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

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Abstract: A measurement of the cross section for the inclusive production of isolated prompt photons in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV is presented. The measurement covers the pseudorapidity ranges |η^γ | < 1.37 and 1.56 ≤ |η^γ | < 2.37 in the transverse energy range 25 < E_T ^γ < 1500 GeV. The results are based on an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb⁻¹, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Photon candidates are identified by combining information from the calorimeters and the inner tracker. The background is subtracted using a data-driven technique, based on the observed calorimeter shower-shape variables and the deposition of hadronic energy in a narrow cone around the photon candidate. The measured cross sections are compared with leading-order and next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations and are found to be in a good agreement over ten orders of magnitude.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English
Article number	5
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2016
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)005
State	Published - Aug 1 2016

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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Photon production
proton-proton scattering

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Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in pp collisions at s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

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