Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS Collaboration, et al. (2016) Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physical Review Letters, 117. p. 182002. ISSN 0031-9007
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Abstract
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 (2.07<|η|<3.86 ) of the detector. A cross section of 68.1±1.4 mb is measured in the fiducial region ξ=M 2 X /s>10 −6 , where M X 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 M X >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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy |
Research Centres and Groups: | Experimental Particle Physics Research Group |
Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
Depositing User: | Richard Chambers |
Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2016 12:09 |
Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2017 22:59 |
URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65700 |
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