TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - The ATLAS Collaboration
AU - Aaboud, M.
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abeloos, B.
AU - Aben, R.
AU - AbouZeid, O. S.
AU - Abraham, N. L.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Adachi, S.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adams, D. L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adomeit, S.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
AU - Agricola, J.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahlen, S. P.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Aielli, G.
AU - Akerstedt, H.
AU - Åkesson, T. P.A.
AU - Akimov, A. V.
AU - Alberghi, G. L.
AU - Albert, J.
AU - Albrand, S.
AU - Alconada Verzini, M. J.
AU - Aleksa, M.
AU - Aleksandrov, I. N.
AU - Alexa, C.
AU - Alexander, G.
AU - Alexopoulos, T.
AU - Alhroob, M.
AU - Ali, B.
AU - Aliev, M.
AU - Alimonti, G.
AU - Alison, J.
AU - Alkire, S. P.
AU - Allbrooke, B. M.M.
AU - Allen, B. W.
AU - Allport, P. P.
AU - Aloisio, A.
AU - Rudolph, M. S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Author
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041793094
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 761
SP - 158
EP - 178
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -