ATLAS Collaboration (Including: Farrington, Sinead). (2011) Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), Vol.83 (No.5). 052005. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

A measurement of the cross section for the inclusive production of isolated prompt photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy √s=7  TeV is presented. The measurement covers the pseudorapidity ranges |ηγ|<1.37 and 1.52≤|ηγ|<1.81 in the transverse energy range 15≤ETγ<100  GeV. The results are based on an integrated luminosity of 880  nb-1, collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Photon candidates are identified by combining information from the calorimeters and from the inner tracker. Residual background in the selected sample is estimated from data based on the observed distribution of the transverse isolation energy in a narrow cone around the photon candidate. The results are compared to predictions from next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Proton-proton interactions, Photons, Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Journal or Publication Title:	Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	1550-7998
Date:	1 March 2011
Volume:	Vol.83
Number:	No.5
Number of Pages:	31
Page Range:	052005
Identification Number:	10.1103/PhysRevD.83.052005
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Funder:	Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), Yerevan Physics Institute (Armenia), Australian Research Council (ARC), Austria. Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung [Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture], Azärbaycan Milli Elmlär Akademiyası, Sosny Science and Technology Center (Belarus), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), National Research Council Canada (NRCC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Chile. Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Zhongguo ke xue yuan [Chinese Academy of Sciences] (CAS), China. Guo jia ke xue ji shu bu [Ministry of Science and Technology], Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), Fondo Colombiano de Investigaciones Científicas y Proyectos Especiales Francisco José de Caldas (COLCIENCIAS), Czech Socialist Republic (Czechoslovakia). Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy, Czech Socialist Republic (Czechoslovakia). Ministerstvo průmyslu a obchodu, VSC CR (Czech Republic), Danmarks Grundforskningsfond [Danish National Research Foundation], Statens naturvidenskabelige forskningsråd (Denmark) [Natural Science Research Council], Lundbeck Foundation, European Union (EU), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) (CNRS), Direction des Sciences de la Matière, Sakʻartʻvelos mecʻnierebatʻa erovnuli akademia [Georgian National Academy of Sciences] (GNAS), Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvHS), Greece. General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Minerva Stiftung, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, Deutsch-Israelische Projektkooperation, Benoziyo Center (Israel), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Japan. Monbushō, Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science] (NGS), Centre national pour la recherche scientifique et technique (Morocco), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO), Norges forskningsråd [Norwegian Research Council], Poland. Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego [Ministry of Science and Higher Education] (MNiSW), Gabinete dos Relações Internationais da Ciência e Ensino Superior (Portugal), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Romania. Ministerul Educației, Cercetării și Tineretului [Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports], Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo obrazovanii︠a︡ i nauki [Ministry of Education and Science], Federalʹnoe agentstvo po atomnoĭ ėnergii (Russia), Obʺedinennyĭ institut i︠a︡dernykh issledovaniĭ (Dubna, Chekhovskiĭ raĭon, Russia), Serbia. Ministarstvo za nauku i tehnologiju i razvoj, Slovakia. Ministerstvo školstva, Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia. Ministrstvo za visoko šolstvo, znanost in tehnologijo, South Africa. Dept. of Science and Technology, Spain. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), Sweden. Vetenskapsrådet [Research Council], Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (Sweden), Switzerland. Staatssekretariat für Ausbildung und Forschung (SER), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF), Bern (Switzerland : Canton), Guo jia ke xue wei yuan hui [National Science Council (Taiwan)], Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), Royal Society (Great Britain), Leverhulme Trust (LT), United States. Dept. of Energy, National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, France. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), National Research Foundation (South Africa), Geneva (Switzerland : Canton)
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/44685

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