Global QCD study of direct photon production
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 51 (11), 6139-6145
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.51.6139
Abstract
A global QCD analysis of the direct photon production process from both fixed target and collider experiments is presented. These data sets now completely cover the parton x range from 0.01 to 0.6, thereby providing a stringent test of perturbative QCD and parton distributions. Previous detailed studies of direct photons emphasized fixed target data. We find most data sets have a steeper distribution than the QCD prediction. Neither global fits with new parton distributions nor improved photon fragmentation functions can resolve this problem since the deviation occurs at different x values for experiments at different energies. A more likely explanation is the need for additional broadening of the of the initial state partons. The magnitude and the possible physical origin of this effect are investigated and discussed.
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