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CMS-QCD-10-019 ; CERN-PH-EP-2010-053
Measurement of the Isolated Prompt Photon Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 082001
Abstract: The differential cross section for the inclusive production of isolated prompt photons has been measured as a function of the photon transverse energy E_T-gamma in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV using data recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.9 inverse picobarns. Photons are required to have a pseudorapidity |eta_gamma|<1.45 and E_T-gamma > 21 GeV, covering the kinematic region 0.006 < x_T < 0.086. The measured cross section is found to be in agreement with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations.
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