Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Aaboud, M ; Aad, G ; Abbott, B. ; Abdallah, J ; Abdinov, O ; Abeloos, B ; Åkesson, Torsten LU
; Bocchetta, Simona
LU
; BRYNGEMARK, LENE
LU
and Doglioni, Caterina
LU
, et al.
(2016)
In Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
761.
p.158-178
- Abstract
- A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at s=8 TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb−1was accumulated in a special run with high-β⋆beam optics 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 0.014 GeV2to 0.1 GeV2to extrapolate t→0, the total cross section, σtot(pp→X), is measured via the optical theorem to beσtot(pp→X)=96.07±0.18(stat.)±0.85(exp.)±0.31(extr.)mb, where the first error is statistical, the second accounts for all experimental systematic uncertainties and the last is related to uncertainties in... (More)
- A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at s=8 TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb−1was accumulated in a special run with high-β⋆beam optics 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 0.014 GeV2to 0.1 GeV2to extrapolate t→0, the total cross section, σtot(pp→X), is measured via the optical theorem to beσtot(pp→X)=96.07±0.18(stat.)±0.85(exp.)±0.31(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 t→0. In addition, the slope of the exponential function describing the elastic cross section at small t is determined to be B=19.74±0.05(stat.)±0.23(syst.)GeV−2. © 2016 The Author (Less)
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- Aaboud, M
; Aad, G
; Abbott, B.
; Abdallah, J
; Abdinov, O
; Abeloos, B
; Åkesson, Torsten
LU
; Bocchetta, Simona
LU
; BRYNGEMARK, LENE
LU
and Doglioni, Caterina
LU
, et al. (More)
- Aaboud, M
; Aad, G
; Abbott, B.
; Abdallah, J
; Abdinov, O
; Abeloos, B
; Åkesson, Torsten
LU
; Bocchetta, Simona
LU
; BRYNGEMARK, LENE
LU
; Doglioni, Caterina
LU
; Hedberg, Vincent
LU
; Jarlskog, Göran
LU
; Lytken, Else
LU
; Mjörnmark, Ulf
LU
; Smirnova, Oxana
LU
and Viazlo, Oleksandr
LU
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- 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020
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abstract = {{A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at s=8 TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb−1was accumulated in a special run with high-β⋆beam optics 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 0.014 GeV2to 0.1 GeV2to extrapolate t→0, the total cross section, σtot(pp→X), is measured via the optical theorem to beσtot(pp→X)=96.07±0.18(stat.)±0.85(exp.)±0.31(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 t→0. In addition, the slope of the exponential function describing the elastic cross section at small t is determined to be B=19.74±0.05(stat.)±0.23(syst.)GeV−2. © 2016 The Author}},
author = {{Aaboud, M and Aad, G and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J and Abdinov, O and Abeloos, B and Åkesson, Torsten and Bocchetta, Simona and BRYNGEMARK, LENE and Doglioni, Caterina and Hedberg, Vincent and Jarlskog, Göran and Lytken, Else and Mjörnmark, Ulf and Smirnova, Oxana and Viazlo, Oleksandr}},
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language = {{eng}},
pages = {{158--178}},
publisher = {{Elsevier}},
series = {{Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics}},
title = {{Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020}},
doi = {{10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020}},
volume = {{761}},
year = {{2016}},
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