Abstract: | For the first time at LEP the production of prompt photons is studied in the collisions of quasi-real photons using the OPAL data taken at
centre-of-mass energies between 183 GeV and 209 GeV. The total inclusive production cross-section for isolated prompt photons in the kinematic range of transverse momentum
GeV and pseudorapidity
is determined to be
. Differential cross-sections are compared to the predictions of a next-to-leading-order (NLO) calculation.Received: 6 May 2003, Published online: 4 November 2003 |