Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; S. Abdel Khalek; O. Abdinov; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen; Sascha Mehlhase; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Almut Maria Pingel; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019

Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Sascha Mehlhase, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Almut Maria Pingel, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig WiglesworthGorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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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, σ_tot(pp→X), is measured via the optical theorem to be: σ_tot(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.

Original language	English
Journal	Nuclear Physics B
Volume	889
Pages (from-to)	486-548
ISSN	0550-3213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019
Publication status	Published - Dec 2014

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Thomsen, L. A., Mehlhase, S., Jørgensen, M. D., Pingel, A. M., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., Alonso Diaz, A., Monk, J. W., Pedersen, L. E., ... Galster, G. A. G. K. (2014). Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Nuclear Physics B, 889, 486-548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdel Khalek, S, Abdinov, O, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Thomsen, LA, Mehlhase, S, Jørgensen, MD, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G & Galster, GAGK 2014, 'Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Nuclear Physics B, vol. 889, pp. 486-548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019

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Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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