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Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross-section in pp collisions at sqrt(s)= 7 TeV using 35 pb-1 of ATLAS data
Atlas CollaborationVasiliki MitsouAntonio Ferrer SoriaJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezSusana Cabrera UrbánJuan A. Fuster VerdúLuca FioriniEduardo Ros MartínezYesenia Hernández JiménezCarlos Lacasta LlácerEmilio Higón RodríguezJosé Salt CairolsSantiago González De La HozCarmen García GarcíaSalvador Martí GarcíaMiguel Villaplana PérezVicente Lacuesta Miquelsubject
High Energy Physics::PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentFísica nuclearNuclear Experimentdescription
A measurement of the differential cross-section for the inclusive production of isolated prompt photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is presented. The measurement covers the pseudorapidity ranges vertical bar eta vertical bar < 1.37 and 1.52 <= vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.37 in the transverse energy range 45 <= E(T) < 400 GeV. The results are based on an integrated luminosity of 35 pb(-1), collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The yields of the signal photons are measured using a data-driven technique, based on the observed distribution of the hadronic energy in a narrow cone around the photon candidate and the photon selection criteria. The results are compared with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations and found to be in good agreement over four orders of magnitude in cross-section.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-01 |