Title
Measurement of prompt photon cross sections in photoproduction at HERA
Date Issued
01 January 2005
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aktas A.
Andreev V.
Anthonis T.
Asmone A.
Babaev A.
Backovic S.
Bähr J.
Baranov P.
Barrelet E.
Bartel W.
Baumgartner S.
Becker J.
Beckingham M.
Behnke O.
Behrendt O.
Belousov A.
Berger C.
Berger N.
Berndt T.
Bizot J.C.
Böhme J.
Boenig M.O.
Boudry V.
Bracinik J.
Brisson V.
Bröker H.B.
Brown D.P.
Bruncko D.
Büsser F.W.
Bunyatyan A.
Buschhorn G.
Bystritskaya L.
Campbell A.J.
Caron S.
Cassol-Brunner F.
Cerny K.
Chekelian V.
Collard C.
Contreras J.G.
Coppens Y.R.
Coughlan J.A.
Cox B.E.
Cozzika G.
Cvach J.
Dainton J.B.
Dau W.D.
Daum K.
Delcourt B.
Demirchyan R.
De Roeck A.
Desch K.
De Wolf E.A.
Diaconu C.
Dingfelder J.
Dodonov V.
Dubak A.
Duprel C.
Eckerlin G.
Efremenko V.
Egli S.
Eichler R.
Eisele F.
Ellerbrock M.
Elsen E.
Erdmann M.
Erdmann W.
Faulkner P.J.W.
Favart L.
Fedotov A.
Felst R.
Ferencei J.
Fleischer M.
Fleischmann P.
Fleming Y.H.
Flucke G.
Flügge G.
Fomenko A.
Foresti I.
Formánek J.
Franke G.
Frising G.
Gabathuler E.
Gabathuler K.
Garutti E.
Garvey J.
Gayler J.
Gerhards R.
Gerlich C.
Ghazaryan S.
Goerlich L.
Gogitidze N.
Gorbounov S.
Grab C.
Grässler H.
Greenshaw T.
Gregori M.
Grindhammer G.
Gwilliam C.
Haidt D.
Hajduk L.
Publisher(s)
Springer New York
Abstract
Results are presented on the photoproduction of isolated prompt photons, inclusively and associated with jets, in the γp center of mass energy range 142 < W < 266 GeV. The cross sections are measured for the transverse momentum range of the photons 5 < ETγ < 10 GeV and for associated jets with ETjet > 4.5 GeV. They are measured differentially as a function of ETγ, ETjet, the pseudorapidities ηγ and ηjet and estimators of the momentum fractions xγ and xp of the incident photon and proton carried by the constituents participating in the hard process. In order to further investigate the underlying dynamics, the angular correlation between the prompt photon and the jet in the transverse plane is studied. Predictions by perturbative QCD calculations in next to leading order are about 30% below the inclusive prompt photon data after corrections for hadronisation and multiple interactions, but are in reasonable agreement with the results for prompt photons associated with jets. Comparisons with the predictions of the event generators PYTHIA and HERWIG are also presented. © Springer-Verlag/ Società Italiana di Fisica 2004.
Start page
437
End page
445
Volume
38
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-12744276072
Source
European Physical Journal C
ISSN of the container
14346044
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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