Cross section of isolated prompt photons in hadron-hadron collisions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 667-700

  Catani, Stefano ^a,d   Fontannaz, Michel ^b   Guillet, Jean Philippe ^c   Pilon, Eric ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c LAPTH   (France)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144441000     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/05/028     Document Type: Article

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