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Particles and Fields
Eur. Phys. J. C 2, 39-48

Measurement of the quark to photon fragmentation function through the inclusive production of prompt photons in hadronic $\rm \bf Z^0$ decays

The OPAL Collaboration, K.Ackerstaff 8et al.

8 CERN, European Organisation for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Received: 17 July 1997

Abstract
The inclusive production of prompt photons with energy above 10 GeV is measured using the OPAL detector in hadronic $\rm Z^0$ decays at LEP. Minimal isolation cuts were imposed upon the prompt photons. The production rate and energy spectrum of prompt photons are found to be in agreement with QCD predictions for the quark-to-photon fragmentation function.


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