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We assess and compare different methods for including leading threshold logarithms at next-to-leading-power in prompt photon production at hadron colliders, for both the direct and parton fragmentation mechanisms. We do this in addition to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-18 Melissa van Beekveld , Wim Beenakker , Rahul Basu , Eric Laenen , Anuradha Misra , Patrick Motylinski

The production of hard photons and neutral pions in 190 MeV proton induced reactions on C, Ca, Ni, and W targets has been for the first time concurrently studied. Angular distributions and energy spectra up to the kinematical limit are…

We present some results on renormalization and factorization scale dependence of soft-gluon resummation, at the next-to-leading-logarithmic level, in the fixed-target hadro-production cross-section for prompt photons.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo Oleari

Prompt photon production is sensitive to the anomalous couplings of gluons to quarks, because it is mainly produced by quark-gluon scattering. We will examine the effects of the anomalous chromoelectric and chromomagnetic dipole moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kingman Cheung , Dennis Silverman

We study the single-inclusive production of prompt photons in electron proton collisions, $ep \to \gamma X $, for kinematics relevant at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We perform a perturbative calculation of the differential cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 Daniel Rein , Marc Schlegel , Werner Vogelsang

We consider the production of isolated prompt photons in hadronic collisions. We present a general discussion in QCD perturbation theory of the isolation criterion used by hadron collider experiments. The isolation criterion is implemented…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Catani , M. Fontannaz , J. Ph. Guillet , E. Pilon

Jet quenching effect has been investigated in the direct photon production, based on a realistic data-constrained (3+1) dimensional hydrodynamic description of the expanding hot and dense matter, a reasonable treatment of the propagation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Fu-Ming Liu , Tetsufumi Hirano , Klaus Werner , Yan Zhu

The jet fragmentation function describes the longitudinal momentum distribution of hadrons inside a reconstructed jet. We study the jet fragmentation function in proton-proton collisions in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-24 Yang-Ting Chien , Zhong-Bo Kang , Felix Ringer , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

We consider QCD radiative corrections to WW pair production in hadron collisions. We perform a calculation that consistently combines next-to-leading order predictions with soft-gluon resummation valid at small transverse momenta ptWW of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Grazzini

We consider the prompt photon production at high energy hadron colliders in the framework of k_T-factorization approach. The unintegrated quark and gluon distributions in a proton are determined using the Kimber-Martin-Ryskin prescription.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 A. V. Lipatov , N. P. Zotov

This paper investigates the electromagnetic production of lepton pairs with low transverse momentum in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We estimate the initial photons' transverse momentum contributions by employing models where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Spencer Klein , Al Mueller , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

We study the single transverse spin asymmetry of prompt photon production in high energy proton-proton scattering. We include the contributions from both the direct and fragmentation photons. While the asymmetry for direct photon production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang

Direct photon production is an important observable in heavy ion collisions as photons are penetrating and therefore largely insensetive to final state effects that lead to jet quenching. Measurements of the fragmentation component to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Ali Hanks

In the present work, it is intended to calculate and study the single and double differential cross-sections of the prompt single-photon production as a function of produced single-photon transverse momentum and rapidity, in the high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-13 R. Aminzadeh Nik , M. Modarres , N. Olanj , R. Taghavi

We calculate the cross section for inclusive prompt photon production in $\gamma\gamma$ collisions, i.e. the reaction $e^+e^-\to \gamma \gamma \to \gamma X$, in next-to-leading order QCD. We show that at LEP2 energies this cross section is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. E. Gordon , J. K. Storrow

Soft photons produced in heavy ion collisions are an important tool for probing the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. It is therefore crucial to understand the background - soft photons produced in elementary collisions. Low theorem…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Frasher Loshaj , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

In these proceedings we report recent progress on understanding hadron and jet production in electron-nucleus collisions at the future Electron-Ion Collider [1,2]. These processes will play an essential role in the exploration of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-07 Hai Tao Li , Ze Long Liu , Ivan Vitev

The production rate and kinematic distributions of isolated photon pairs produced in hadron interactions are studied. The effects of the initial-state multiple soft-gluon emission to the scattering subprocesses q-qbar, qg, and gg to gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Balazs , E. L. Berger , S. Mrenna , C. -P. Yuan

Inclusive pizero and direct-photon cross sections in the kinematic range 3.5 < pT < 12 GeV/c with central rapidities are presented for 530 and 800 GeV/c proton beams and a 515 GeV/c pi- beam incident on beryllium targets. Current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-04-17 Fermilab E706 Collaboration , L. Apanasevich

We calculate the inclusive cross section for prompt photon production in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies ($\sqrt{s}=130$ GeV and $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV) in the central rapidity region including next-to-leading order,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Jalilian-Marian , K. Orginos , I. Sarcevic