# The 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics

Jul 16 – 22, 2009
Kraków, Poland
Europe/Warsaw timezone

## Prompt Photon Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering and Photoproduction at HERA

Jul 16, 2009, 3:05 PM
20m
Exhibition room A (Kraków, Poland)

### Exhibition room A

#### Kraków, Poland

The Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University 33 Krupnicza Street 31-123 Kraków
QCD at Colliders

### Speaker

Krzysztof Nowak (Zuerich University)

### Description

Prompt-photon cross sections in deep inelastic ep scattering were measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 320 pb-1. A clear signal for isolated photons in the photon transverse-energy and rapidity ranges 4 < E_T^gamma < 15 GeV and -0.7 < eta^gamma < 0.9 was observed for virtualities of the exchanged photon of Q^2 > 10 GeV^2. Measurements of differential cross sections are presented for inclusive prompt-photon production as a function of Q^2, x_Bj, E_T^gamma and eta^gamma. Perturbative QCD predictions are compared to the measurements. The production of isolated photons in deep-inelastic scattering $ep\to e \gamma X$ is measured with the H1 detector at HERA. The measurement is performed in the kinematic range of negative four-momentum transfer squared 4<Q^2<150 GeV^2 and a mass of the hadronic system W_X>50 GeV. The analysis is based on a total integrated luminosity of 227 pb^-1. The production cross section of isolated photons with a transverse energy in the range 3 < E_T^\gamma < 10 GeV and pseudorapidity range -1.2 < \eta^\gamma < 1.8 is measured as a function of E_T^\gamma, \eta^\gamma and Q^2. Isolated photon cross sections are also measured for events with no jets or at least one hadronic jet. The measurements are compared with predictions from Monte Carlo generators modelling the photon radiation from the quark and the electron lines, as well as with calculations at leading and next to leading order in the strong coupling. The predictions significantly underestimate the measured cross sections. A measurement of the production of prompt photons in photoproduction by the H1 experiment at HERA is presented. The analysis is based on the data taken in the years 2004-2007, with a total integrated luminosity of 340 pb^-1. Prompt photon cross sections are measured for photons with a transverse energy in the range 6 < E_T^gamma < 15 GeV and in the pseudorapidity range -1 < eta^gamma < 2.4. Cross sections for prompt photon events with an additional hadronic jet are measured as a function of the transverse energy and pseudorapidity of the jet and of the momentum fractions x_gamma and x_proton of the incident photon and proton, respectively, carried by the constituents participating in the hard scattering process. Additionally, the transverse correlation between the photon and the jet is studied. The results are compared with predictions of a next-to-leading order calculation and a calculation based on the k_T factorisation approach.

### Primary author

Krzysztof Nowak (Zuerich University)

### Co-author

Katja Krueger (Heidelberg University)

 Slides