### Massive Lepton Pairs as a Prompt Photon SurrogateMassive Lepton Pairs as a Prompt Photon Surrogate

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 Author Berger, Edmond L. ♦ Gordon, Lionel E. ♦ Klasen, Michael Source arXiv.org Content type Text File Format PDF Date of Submission 1998-03-18 Language English
 Subject Domain (in DDC) Computer science, information & general works ♦ Natural sciences & mathematics ♦ Physics Subject Keyword High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ♦ physics:hep-ph Abstract We discuss the transverse momentum distribution for the production of massive lepton-pairs in hadron reactions at fixed target and collider energies within the context of next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamics. For values of the transverse momentum $Q_T$ greater than the pair mass $Q$, $Q_T > Q$, we show that the differential cross section is dominated by subprocesses initiated by incident gluons. Massive lepton-pair differential cross sections are an advantageous source of constraints on the gluon density, free from the experimental and theoretical complications of photon isolation that beset studies of prompt photon production. We compare calculations with data and provide predictions for the differential cross section as a function of $Q_T$ in proton-antiproton reactions at center-of-mass energies of 1.8 TeV, and in proton-nucleon reactions at fixed target and LHC energies. Description Reference: Phys.Rev.D58:074012,1998 Educational Use Research Learning Resource Type Article Page Count 36