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Prompt Diphoton Production

Document(s) Web Page       Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 102003 (2011)       Phys. Rev. D 84, 052006 (2011)
Contact(s) R. Culbertson, A. Pronko, and C. Vellidis
Abstract We report a measurement of the production cross section of prompt isolated photon pairs in proton-antiproton collisions at a total CM energy of 1.96 TeV using 5.36 fb-1 of data collected with the CDF IIb detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The cross section is presented as a function of kinematic variables sensitive to the reaction mechanism. The data are compared with three pertinent model calculations, at leading order, fixed next-to-leading order, and PT-resummed matched to next-to-leading order in the strong coupling at the hard scattering. The comparison shows that none of the models adequately describes all aspects of the data.
Comments Last Update: May 2011       Dataset: 5.4 fb-1