Title
Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Date Issued
01 January 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aaboud M.
Aad G.
Abbott B.
Abdallah J.
Abdinov O.
Abeloos B.
Aben R.
AbouZeid O.S.
Abraham N.L.
Abramowicz H.
Abreu H.
Abreu R.
Abulaiti Y.
Acharya B.S.
Adachi S.
Adamczyk L.
Adams D.L.
Adelman J.
Adomeit S.
Adye T.
Affolder A.A.
Agatonovic-Jovin T.
Agricola J.
Aguilar-Saavedra J.A.
Ahlen S.P.
Ahmadov F.
Aielli G.
Akerstedt H.
Åkesson T.P.A.
Akimov A.V.
Alberghi G.L.
Albert J.
Albrand S.
Alconada Verzini M.J.
Aleksa M.
Aleksandrov I.N.
Alexa C.
Alexander G.
Alexopoulos T.
Alhroob M.
Ali B.
Aliev M.
Alimonti G.
Alison J.
Alkire S.P.
Allbrooke B.M.M.
Allen B.W.
Allport P.P.
Aloisio A.
Alonso A.
Alonso F.
Alpigiani C.
Alshehri A.A.
Alstaty M.
Alvarez Gonzalez B.
Álvarez Piqueras D.
Alviggi M.G.
Amadio B.T.
Amako K.
Amaral Coutinho Y.
Amelung C.
Amidei D.
Amor Dos Santos S.P.
Amorim A.
Amoroso S.
Amundsen G.
Anastopoulos C.
Ancu L.S.
Andari N.
Andeen T.
Anders C.F.
Anders G.
Anders J.K.
Anderson K.J.
Andreazza A.
Andrei V.
Angelidakis S.
Angelozzi I.
Anger P.
Angerami A.
Anghinolfi F.
Anisenkov A.V.
Anjos N.
Annovi A.
Antel C.
Antonelli M.
Antonov A.
Anulli F.
Aoki M.
Aperio Bella L.
Arabidze G.
Arai Y.
Araque J.P.
Arce A.T.H.
Arduh F.A.
Arguin J.F.
Argyropoulos S.
Arik M.
Armbruster A.J.
Armitage L.J.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at s=8 TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb−1 was accumulated in a special run with high-β⋆ beam optics 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 0.014 GeV2 to 0.1 GeV2 to extrapolate t→0, the total cross section, σtot(pp→X), is measured via the optical theorem to be σtot(pp→X)=96.07±0.18(stat.)±0.85(exp.)±0.31(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 t→0. In addition, the slope of the exponential function describing the elastic cross section at small t is determined to be B=19.74±0.05(stat.)±0.23(syst.)GeV−2.
Start page
158
End page
178
Volume
761
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Física nuclear
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85041793094
Source
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
03702693
Sponsor(s)
We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, Canarie, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Région Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus