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 sqrt(s)=8 TeV is presented. The measurement covers the pseudo rapidity ranges |ηγ|<1.37 and 1.56≤|ηγ|<2.37 in the transverse energy range 25<EγT<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.

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

CHIODINI, GABRIELE;GORINI, Edoardo;PRIMAVERA, Margherita;SPAGNOLO, Stefania Antonia;VENTURA, Andrea
2016-01-01

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 sqrt(s)=8 TeV is presented. The measurement covers the pseudo rapidity ranges |ηγ|<1.37 and 1.56≤|ηγ|<2.37 in the transverse energy range 25
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