Measurement of isolated-photon pair production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has measured the production cross section of events with two isolated photons in the final state, in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7TeV. The full data set collected in 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1, is used. The amount of background, f...
| Autores: | , , , , , |
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2013 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Recursos: | Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
| Repositório: | SEDICI (UNLP) |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/78761 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/78761 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Ciencias Exactas Física hadron-hadron scattering Fotones proton-proton collisions ATLAS detector |
| Resumo: | The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has measured the production cross section of events with two isolated photons in the final state, in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7TeV. The full data set collected in 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1, is used. The amount of background, from hadronic jets and isolated electrons, is estimated with data-driven techniques and subtracted. The total cross section, for two isolated photons with transverse energies above 25 GeV and 22 GeV respectively, in the acceptance of the electromagnetic calorimeter (|η| < 1.37 and 1.52 < |η| < 2.37) and with an angular separation ΔR > 0.4, is 44.0+3.2 −4.2 pb. The differential cross sections as a function of the di-photon invariant mass, transverse momentum, azimuthal separation, and cosine of the polar angle of the largest transverse energy photon in the Collins-Soper di-photon rest frame are also measured. The results are compared to the prediction of leading-order parton-shower and next-to-leading-order and next-to-next-to-leading-order parton-level generators. |
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