Direct photons and dileptons via color dipoles

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Drell-Yan dilepton pair production and inclusive direct photon production can be described within a unified framework in the color dipole approach.

• The inclusion of non-perturbative primordial transverse momenta and DGLAP evolution is studied.
• We successfully describe data for dilepton spectra from 800-GeV pp collisions, inclusive direct photon spectra for pp collisions at RHIC energies $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV, and for $p\bar{p}$ collisions at Tevatron energies $\sqrt{s}=1.8$ TeV, in a formalism that is free from any extra parameters.