Measurement of photon production cross sections also in association with jets with the ATLAS detector

The production of prompt isolated photons at hadron colliders provides a stringent test of perturbative QCD and can be used to probe the proton structure. The ATLAS collaboration has performed precise measurements of the inclusive production of isolated prompt photons at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, differential in both rapidity and the photon transverse momentum. In addition, the integrated and differential cross sections for isolated photon pairs and tri-photon production 8 TeV have been measured. The results are compared with state-of-the art theory predictions at NLO in QCD and with predictions of several MC generators. The production of prompt photons in association with jets provides an additional testing ground for perturbative QCD (pQCD) with a hard colourless probe less affected by hadronisation effects than jet production. The ATLAS collaboration has studied the dynamics of isolated-photon plus jet production in pp collisions at a centre-of- mass energy of 8 and 13 TeV, which will be presented and discussed. The production of prompt photons in association with heavy-flavoured quarks constitutes an excellent probe of the flavour structure of the proton. A new measurement of the photon transverse momentum in associated production with b or c quarks is presented.