Measurement of prompt photon production in √sNN = 8.16 TeV p + Pb collisions with ATLAS

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2019-09-10Author
Aaboud, M.
Rogan, Christopher
The ATLAS Collaboration
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Elsevier
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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© 2019 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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The inclusive production rates of isolated, prompt photons in p + Pb collisions at √sNN = 8.16 TeV are studied with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider using a dataset with an integrated luminosity of 165 nb−1 recorded in 2016. The cross-section and nuclear modification factor RpPb are measured as a function of photon transverse energy from 20 GeV to 550 GeV and in three nucleon–nucleon centre-of-mass pseudorapidity regions, (−2.83,−2.02), (−1.84, 0.91), and (1.09, 1.90). The cross-section and RpPb values are compared with the results of a next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculation, with and without nuclear parton distribution function modifications, and with expectations based on a model of the energy loss of partons prior to the hard scattering. The data disfavour a large amount of energy loss and provide new constraints on the parton densities in nuclei.
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M. Aaboud et al., "Measurement of prompt photon production in sNN=8.16 TeV p + Pb collisions with ATLAS", Physics Letters B, Volume 796, 2019, Pages 230-252, ISSN 0370-2693,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.07.031.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319304885)
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