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Sudakov Resummation Effects in Prompt-Photon Hadroproduction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-02-03 v1

Abstract

We compute the effects of soft-gluon resummation, at the next-to-leading-logarithmic level, in the fixed-target hadroproduction cross section for prompt photons. We find in general that the corrections to the fixed next-to-leading-order results are large for large renormalization scales, and small for small scales. This leads to a significant reduction of the scale dependence of the results for most experimental configurations of interest. We compare our results to the recent measurements by the E706 and UA6 collaborations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9903436,
  title  = {Sudakov Resummation Effects in Prompt-Photon Hadroproduction},
  author = {S. Catani and M. L. Mangano and P. Nason and C. Oleari and W. Vogelsang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9903436},
  year   = {2010}
}

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30 pages, Latex, epsfig, amssymb, 17 figures. Submitted to JHEP