A Study of Hadronic Backgrounds to Isolated Hard Photon Production with L3
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I describe two methods for studying hadronic backgrounds to prompt photon production with L3, and compare the observed background rates with Monte Carlo predictions. I find that the Monte Carlo models JETSET and HERWIG underestimate the production of isolated neutral hadrons in hadronic Z decays at LEP. By extrapolating results obtained with L3, I estimate that the rate of prompt-photon + jet background to a H -> gamma gamma search at the LHC will be larger than Monte Carlo predictions by a factor of 1.5-2.5.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9505012,
title = {A Study of Hadronic Backgrounds to Isolated Hard Photon Production with L3},
author = {David Kirkby},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9505012},
year = {2007}
}
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