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Prompt photon production and photon-hadron jet correlations with POWHEG

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-10-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a calculation of direct photon production at next-to-leading order of QCD and a matching of this calculation with parton showers using POWHEG BOX. Based on simulations with POWHEG+PYTHIA, we perform a detailed phenomenological analysis of PHENIX data on prompt photon production and photon-hadron jet correlations in pp collisions at RHIC, considerably improving the description of these data with respect to previous calculations, and we suggest additional interesting analyses.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02275,
  title  = {Prompt photon production and photon-hadron jet correlations with POWHEG},
  author = {T. Jezo and M. Klasen and F. König},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02275},
  year   = {2016}
}

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25 pages, 8 figures