Inclusive-photon production and its dependence on photon isolation in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV using 139 fb −1 of ATLAS data

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Contributors

  • The ATLAS collaboration - , University of California at Berkeley, University of Bucharest, iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, University of Pretoria, University of South Africa, University of Zululand, Cadi Ayyad University, New York University Abu Dhabi, University of Georgia (Tbilisi), CERN (Author)
  • Chair of Experimental Particle Physics
  • Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics
  • Chair of Particle Physics
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Göttingen
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Mohammed V University in Rabat
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • New York University
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London (KCL)
  • Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules LAPP
  • AGH University of Science and Technology
  • University of Toronto
  • Brandeis University
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Istanbul University
  • University of Geneva
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • University of Granada
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS)
  • McGill University
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • German Electron Synchrotron (DESY)
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • TUD Dresden University of Technology
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • University of Warwick

Abstract

Measurements of differential cross sections are presented for inclusive isolated-photon production in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV provided by the LHC and using 139 fb −1 of data recorded by the ATLAS experiment. The cross sections are measured as functions of the photon transverse energy in different regions of photon pseudorapidity. The photons are required to be isolated by means of a fixed-cone method with two different cone radii. The dependence of the inclusive-photon production on the photon isolation is investigated by measuring the fiducial cross sections as functions of the isolation-cone radius and the ratios of the differential cross sections with different radii in different regions of photon pseudorapidity. The results presented in this paper constitute an improvement with respect to those published by ATLAS earlier: the measurements are provided for different isolation radii and with a more granular segmentation in photon pseudorapidity that can be exploited in improving the determination of the proton parton distribution functions. These improvements provide a more in-depth test of the theoretical predictions. Next-to-leading-order QCD predictions from JETPHOX and SHERPA and next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD predictions from NNLOJET are compared to the measurements, using several parameterisations of the proton parton distribution functions. The measured cross sections are well described by the fixed-order QCD predictions within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties in most of the investigated phase-space region. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number86
Pages (from-to)1-69
Number of pages71
JournalJournal of high energy physics
Volume2023
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jul 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

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ORCID /0000-0001-6480-6079/work/172566428
ORCID /0000-0003-0546-1634/work/173516657

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Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering