Vincent Hedberg
Senior lecturer
Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
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Summary, in English
This Letter presents a measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section using 60 μb-1 of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy s of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Inelastic interactions are selected using rings of plastic scintillators in the forward region (2.0710-6, where MX is the larger invariant mass of the two hadronic systems separated by the largest rapidity gap in the event. In this ξ range the scintillators are highly efficient. For diffractive events this corresponds to cases where at least one proton dissociates to a system with MX>13 GeV. The measured cross section is compared with a range of theoretical predictions. When extrapolated to the full phase space, a cross section of 78.1±2.9 mb is measured, consistent with the inelastic cross section increasing with center-of-mass energy. © 2016 CERN. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2016
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical Review Letters
Volume
117
Issue
18
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Ionization
- Phase space methods
- Scintillation counters
- A-center
- ATLAS detectors
- Center-of-mass energies
- Hadronic systems
- Inelastic cross sections
- Inelastic interaction
- Invariant mass
- Plastic scintillator
- Tellurium compounds
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1079-7114