Measurement of the isolated di-photon cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

• Main Author: ATLAS collaboration (3034 authors)
• Publication Date: 2011
• Other Authors: Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio, Amaral, Pedro, Anjos, Nuno, Carvalho, Joao, Castro, Nuno Filipe, Conde Muino, Patricia, Do Valle Wemans, Andre, Fiolhais, Miguel, Gomes, Agostinho, Goncalo, Ricardo, Jorge, Pedro, Lopes, Lourenco, Machado Miguens, Joana, Magalhaes Martins, Paulo Jorge, Maio, Amelia, Maneira, Jose, Morais, Antonio, Oliveira, Miguel Alfonso, Onofre, Antonio, Palma, Alberto, Pina, Joao Antonio, Pinto, Belmiro, Santos, Helena, Saraiva, Joao, Silva, Jose, Soares, Mara, Veloso, Filipe, Wolters, Helmut
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.012003; http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26025

The ATLAS experiment has measured the production cross-section of events with two isolated photons in the final state, in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The full data set acquired in 2010 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 37 pb^-1. The background, consisting of hadronic jets and isolated electrons, is estimated with fully data-driven techniques and subtracted. The differential cross-sections, as functions of the di-photon mass, total transverse momentum and azimuthal separation, are presented and compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD.