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Measurement of Prompt Photons with Associated Jets in Photoproduction at HERA
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Measurement of Prompt Photons with Associated Jets in Photoproduction at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration and Jose Repond
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, Vol.49(No), pp.511-522
2007
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0134-1
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0608028View
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Abstract

The photoproduction of prompt photons, together with an accompanying jet, has been studied in ep collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 77 pb-1. Cross sections were measured for the transverse energy of the photon and the jet larger than 5 and 6 GeV, respectively. The differential γ+jet cross sections were reconstructed as functions of the transverse energy, pseudorapidity and xγ obs, the fraction of the incoming photon momentum taken by the photon-jet system. Predictions based on leading-logarithm parton-shower Monte Carlo models and next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD generally underestimate the cross sections for the transverse energies of prompt photons below 7 GeV, while the kT-factorisation QCD calculation agrees with the data better. When the minimum transverse energy of prompt photons is increased to 7 GeV, both NLO QCD and the kT-factorisation calculations are in good agreement with the data.

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