Measurement of isolated photon production in pp and PbPb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV
Measurement of isolated photon production in pp and PbPb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV
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2012-04-04
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Chatrchyan, S.
Khachatryan, V.
Sirunyan, A. M.
Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Bergauer, T.
Dragicevic, M.
Erö, J.
Fabjan, C.
Friedl, M.
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Abstract
Isolated photon production is measured in proton-proton and lead-lead collisions at nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energies of 2.76 TeV in the pseudorapidity range |η| < 1.44 and transverse energies E T between 20 and 80 GeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The measured E T spectra are found to be in good agreement with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD predictions. The ratio of PbPb to pp isolated photon E T-differential yields, scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions, is consistent with unity for all PbPb reaction centralities. © 2012 CERN.
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CMS,
Heavy-ions,
Photons,
Physics
Citation
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. v.710(2)