Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
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American Physical Society
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2016-10-26Referencia bibliográfica
Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abeloos, B., Aben, R., ... & Abreu, R. (2016). Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at s= 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. Physical review letters, 117(18), 182002. [https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.182002]
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ANPCyT; YerPhI, Armenia; Australian Research Council; BMWFW, Austria; Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS); SSTC, Belarus; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; NRC, Canada; Canada Foundation for Innovation; CERN; Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT); Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ministry of Science and Technology, China; National Natural Science Foundation of China; Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Colciencias; Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic Czech Republic Government; DNRF, Denmark; Danish Natural Science Research Council; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF); HGF, Germany; Max Planck Society; Greek Ministry of Development-GSRT; Hong Kong Research Grants Council; Israel Science Foundation; I-CORE, Israel; Benoziyo Center, Israel; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; CNRST, Morocco; FOM (The Netherlands) Netherlands Government; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Netherlands Government; RCN, Norway; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; NCN, Poland; Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; MNE/IFA, Romania; Russian Federation; NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; Slovenian Research Agency - Slovenia; MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC, Sweden; Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, Switzerland; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources - Turkey; United States Department of Energy (DOE); National Science Foundation (NSF); BCKDF, Canada; Canada Council, Canada; CANARIE, Canada; CRC, Canada; Compute Canada, Canada; FQRNT; Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; European Union (EU); European Union (EU) European Research Council (ERC); Horizon 2020, European Union; French National Research Agency (ANR); Region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes; Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; German Research Foundation (DFG); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Herakleitos; Thales programme; Aristeia programme; Greek Ministry of Development-GSRT; US-Israel Binational Science Foundation; German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development; Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) 1366825 ST/J004804/1 GRIDPP ST/N000307/1 ST/L006162/1 ST/K001329/1 ATLAS ATLAS ST/M000753/1 ST/N000463/1 ST/K001329/1 ST/J005533/1 ST/L000997/1 ST/L003449/1 PP/E000444/1; ICREAResumen
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.