Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at √ s = 7 TeV is presented. In a special run with high-β ⋆ beam optics, an integrated luminosity of 80 µb −1 was accumulated in order to measure the differential elastic cross section as a function of the Mandelstam momentum transfer variable t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/105680 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/105680 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | ATLAS LHC https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at √ s = 7 TeV is presented. In a special run with high-β ⋆ beam optics, an integrated luminosity of 80 µb −1 was accumulated in order to measure the differential elastic cross section as a function of the Mandelstam momentum transfer variable t. The measurement is performed with the ALFA sub-detector of ATLAS. Using a fit to the differential elastic cross section in the |t| range from 0.01 GeV2 to 0.1 GeV2 to extrapolate to |t| → 0, the total cross section, σtot(pp → X), is measured via the optical theorem to be: σtot(pp → X) = 95.35 ± 0.38 (stat.) ± 1.25 (exp.) ± 0.37 (extr.) mb , where the first error is statistical, the second accounts for all experimental systematic uncertainties and the last is related to uncertainties in the extrapolation to |t| → 0. In addition, the slope of the elastic cross section at small |t| is determined to be B = 19.73 ± 0.14 (stat.) ± 0.26 (syst.) GeV−2 . |
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