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Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

dc.contributor.authorATLAS collaboration (2898 authors)
dc.contributor.authorAguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio
dc.contributor.authorAmor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia
dc.contributor.authorAnjos, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorAraque, Juan Pedro
dc.contributor.authorCantrill, Robert
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, João
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Nuno Filipe
dc.contributor.authorConde Muiño, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorDa Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose
dc.contributor.authorDo Valle Wemans, André
dc.contributor.authorFiolhais, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorGalhardo, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Agostinho
dc.contributor.authorGonçalo, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorJorge, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Lourenco
dc.contributor.authorMachado Miguens, Joana
dc.contributor.authorMaio, Amélia
dc.contributor.authorManeira, José
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorOnofre, António
dc.contributor.authorPalma, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorPedro, Rute
dc.contributor.authorPina, João Antonio
dc.contributor.authorPinto, Belmiro
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Helena
dc.contributor.authorSaraiva, João
dc.contributor.authorSilva, José
dc.contributor.authorTavares Delgado, Ademar
dc.contributor.authorVeloso, Filipe
dc.contributor.authorWolters, Helmut
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-04T04:44:32Z
dc.date.available2019-02-04T04:44:32Z
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.date.updated2019-02-04T04:44:32Z
dc.description.abstractA 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 .
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifierNucl.Phys. B889 (2014) 486-548; DOI 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26673
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleMeasurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt
rcaap.typearticle

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