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Isolated photon cross sections in pp and p-Pb at 5.02 TeV with ALICE

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Abstract

Prompt photons, produced via QCD Compton scattering or quark and anti-quark annihilation at leading order, are unique probes to study QCD processes since they do not interact strongly and therefore allow to control the dynamics of the initial hard parton scattering. Isolated photon production in pp collisions is one of the most clear tests of perturbative QCD processes and parton distribution functions. Photon measurement in p-A collisions provides the opportunity to measure possible modifications of the nucleon structure function in nuclei. ALICE has measured isolated photons at low pT, thus extending previous measurements down to small x. In this talk, the cross section of isolated photons for the range 12 GeV/c < pT < 60 GeV/c is presented in pp and p-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV .

Presenters

  • Dhruv Dixit

    University of California, Berkeley

Authors

  • Dhruv Dixit

    University of California, Berkeley