Direct photon production at CERN ISR, CERN collider, and Fermilab Tevatron energies

Abstract
Predictions are presented for large-pT direct photon production in p¯p collisions at CERN ISR (s=63 GeV), CERN collider (540 GeV), and Fermilab Tevatron (1600 GeV) energies in perturbative QCD. Two sets of gluon and other parton distributions determined from deep-inelastic scattering are used. Higher-order corrections (K factors) are approximately taken into account. Contributions from photon bremsstrahlung graphs and the related fractions of photon events accompanied by hadrons are presented and discussed in detail.