Photon pair production with soft gluon resummation in hadronic interactions

The production rate and kinematic distributions of isolated photon pairs produced in hadron interactions are studied. The effects of the initial-state multiple soft-gluon emission to the scattering subprocesses q{bar q},qg, and gg{r_arrow}{gamma}{gamma}X are resummed with the Collins-Soper-Sterman soft gluon resummation formalism. The effects of fragmentation photons from qg{r_arrow}{gamma}q, followed by q{r_arrow}{gamma}X, are also studied. The results are compared with data from the Fermilab Tevatron collider. A prediction of the production rate and kinematic distributions of the diphoton pair in proton-nucleon reactions is also presented. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}