PT Journal
AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea
   Alvarez Piqueras, D
   Barranco Navarro, L
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Cerda Alberich, L
   Costa, MJ
   Fernandez Martinez, P
   Ferrer, A
   Fiorini, L
   Fuster, J
   Garcia, C
   Garcia Navarro, JE
   Gonzalez de la Hoz, S
   Hernandez Jimenez, Y
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Irles Quiles, A
   Jimenez Pena, J
   King, M
   Lacasta, C
   Lacuesta, VR
   Mamuzic, J
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Mitsou, VA
   Pedraza Lopez, S
   Rodriguez Rodriguez, D
   Romero Adam, E
   Ros, E
   Salt, J
   Sanchez Martinez, V
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Valero, A
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Vos, M
TI Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
SO Journal of High Energy Physics
JI J. High Energy Phys.
PY 2016
BP 005
EP 42pp
VL 08
IS 8
DI 10.1007/JHEP08(2016)005
LA English
DE Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Photon production; proton-proton scattering
AB 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 root s = 8 TeV is presented. The measurement covers the pseudorapidity ranges vertical bar eta(gamma)vertical bar < 1.37 and 1.56 aecurrency sign vertical bar eta(gamma)vertical bar < 2.37 in the transverse energy range 25 < E-T(gamma) < 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.
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