Prompt photon production with POWHEG

Authors

  • Michael Klasen Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23727/CERN-Proceedings-2018-001.207

Keywords:

Perturbative QCD, parton showers, photons, hadron colliders.

Abstract

We present a calculation of prompt photon and associated photon-jet production at next-to-leading order that is consistently matched to parton showers with POWHEG. Specific issues that appear in photon radiation are discussed. Numerical results are compared to pp collision data at RHIC energies and shown to describe the data better than inclusive next-to-leading order calculations or those with leading order Monte Carlo generators like PYTHIA alone.

Author Biography

Michael Klasen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Institut für Theoretische Physik

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Published

2018-12-20

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Section

Physics with final-state photons at hadron colliders