https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8405-9
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
The color dipole picture for prompt photon production in pp and pPb collisions at the CERN-LHC
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High Energy Physics Phenomenology Group, GFPAE IF-UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15051, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Departamento de Física Nuclear e de Altas Energias, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, CEP 20550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Received:
29
June
2020
Accepted:
25
August
2020
Published online:
2
September
2020
A study on the prompt photon production within the QCD color dipole picture with emphasis in pp and pA collisions at the LHC energy regimes is performed. We present predictions for the differential cross section as a function of photon transverse momentum at different rapidity bins considering updated phenomenological color dipole models, which take into account the QCD gluon saturation physics. The results are directly compared to the recent experimental measurements provided by CMS and ATLAS Collaborations, showing a reasonable agreement in all rapidity bins with no free parameters. Special attention is given to the IPSAT model given its good description of the data in all rapidity bins from low- to high- ranges. As a result, a free-parameter approach has succeeded in describing the LHC data for prompt photon production, while new predictions for the 13-TeV data is presented in view of new data to confirm such prospect.
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