Phys. Rev. D 71, 071102 (2005) [7 pages]

Midrapidity direct-photon production in p+p collisions at sqrt[s]=200  GeV

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S. S. Adler et al. PHENIX Collaboration
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Rapid Communication Received 2 February 2005; published 8 April 2005

A measurement of direct photons in p+p collisions at sqrt[s]=200  GeV is presented. A photon excess above background from π0→γ+γ, η→γ+γ and other decays is observed in the transverse momentum range 5.5<pT<7  GeV/c. The result is compared to a next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculation. Within errors, good agreement is found between the QCD calculation and the measured result.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.071102
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.071102
PACS: 13.85.Qk, 25.75.Dw

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