Journal article
Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
Physical review letters, Vol.117(18), 182002
10/01/2016
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.182002
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=M2X/s>10−6, 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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
- Creators
- K HaraS. h KimH OkawaK SatoF UkegawaATLAS Collaboration
- Contributors
- U Mallik (Contributor) - University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review letters, Vol.117(18), 182002
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.182002
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Grant note
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- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199939402771
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