Measurement of differential photon-jet cross section from 7 TEV PP collisions in the CMS experiment at the LHC

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Öcalan, Kadir
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Prompt photons are produced primarily by quark-gluon compton scattering and quark-anti-quark annihilation mechanisms that their measurements are driven by several motivations at hadron colliders. Measurement of prompt photons can be used for probing perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD). Prompt photons are produced in the final states of important decays providing evidence for low mass Higgs boson and new physics searches. Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is one of the multi-purpose experiments conducted at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to study the Standard Model (SM) physics including prompt photons and new theories in proton-proton collisions. In this thesis, photon reconstruction is discussed along with the photon identification methods in the CMS experiment. Photon efficiency measurements are presented as an important ingredient for photon+jet cross section measurement. Photon High Level Trigger (HLT) efficiencies, reconstruction (RECO) efficiencies, and identification (ID) efficiencies are presented that are measured from collision data recorded by the CMS detector and Monte Carlo simulation data. Efficiency corrected differential photon+jet cross section measurement results are presented in this study. The collision data used in this thesis corresponds to 2.2 /fb integrated luminosity collected by the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV from 2011 LHC proton-proton collision running.
Proton-proton interactions., Photonuclear reactions., Physics
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21436
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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K. Öcalan, “Measurement of differential photon-jet cross section from 7 TEV PP collisions in the CMS experiment at the LHC,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2012.
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