Measurement of the production cross section of pairs of isolated photons in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
A measurement of prompt photon-pair production in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$= 13 TeV is presented. The data were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Events with two photons in the well-instrumented region of the detector are selected....
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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November 22, 2021
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Journal of high energy physics
Year: 2021, Issue: 11, Pages: 1-53 |
| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP11(2021)169 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2021)169 |
| Author Notes: | the ATLAS collaboration |
| Summary: | A measurement of prompt photon-pair production in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$= 13 TeV is presented. The data were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Events with two photons in the well-instrumented region of the detector are selected. The photons are required to be isolated and have a transverse momentum of $$ {p}_{\mathrm{T}{,}_{\gamma 1(2)}} $$> 40 (30) GeV for the leading (sub-leading) photon. The differential cross sections as functions of several observables for the diphoton system are measured and compared with theoretical predictions from state-of-the-art Monte Carlo and fixed-order calculations. The QCD predictions from next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations and multi-leg merged calculations are able to describe the measured integrated and differential cross sections within uncertainties, whereas lower-order calculations show significant deviations, demonstrating that higher-order perturbative QCD corrections are crucial for this process. The resummed predictions with parton showers additionally provide an excellent description of the low transverse-momentum regime of the diphoton system. |
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| Item Description: | The ATLAS collaboration: G. Aad, F. Bartels, M.M. Czurylo, S.J. Dittmeier, M. Dunford, S. Franchino, M. Klassen, A. Krishnan, T. Mkrtchyan, F. Napolitano, P.S. Ott, D.F. Rassloff, C. Sauer, A. Schoening, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, T.M. Spieker, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, L. Vigani, S.M. Weber, M. Wessels, X. Yue [und viele weitere] Gesehen am 23.03.2022 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP11(2021)169 |