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a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 6 0 8 1 4 5 v 1 1 2 A u g 2 0 0 6 Production of Prompt Photons Edmond L. Berger High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439 Abstract. After a brief review of the production dynamics of prompt single photons in hadron col- lisions, I summarize a new QCD calculation of the transverse momentum distribution of continuum prompt photon pairs produced by QCD subprocesses, including all-orders soft-gluon resummation valid at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Resummation is necessary to obtain reliable predictions, as well a