Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud; G Aad; B. Abbott; J Abdallah; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; LENE BRYNGEMARK; Caterina Doglioni; Vincent Hedberg; Göran Jarlskog; Else Lytken; Ulf Mjörnmark; Oxana Smirnova; Oleksandr Viazlo; ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020

Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud, G Aad, B. Abbott, J Abdallah, O Abdinov, B Abeloos, Torsten Åkesson, Simona Bocchetta, LENE BRYNGEMARK, Caterina Doglioni, Vincent Hedberg, Göran Jarlskog, Else Lytken, Ulf Mjörnmark, Oxana Smirnova, Oleksandr Viazlo, ATLAS Collaboration

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A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at s=8 TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb−1was 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 GeV2to 0.1 GeV2to extrapolate t→0, the total cross section, σtot(pp→X), is measured via the optical theorem to beσtot(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. © 2016 The Author

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	158-178
Number of pages	21
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	761
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Åkesson, T., Bocchetta, S., BRYNGEMARK, LENE., Doglioni, C., Hedberg, V., Jarlskog, G., Lytken, E., Mjörnmark, U., Smirnova, O., Viazlo, O., & ATLAS Collaboration (2016). Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 761, 158-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020

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Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Åkesson, T, Bocchetta, S, BRYNGEMARK, LENE , Doglioni, C , Hedberg, V , Jarlskog, G , Lytken, E, Mjörnmark, U, Smirnova, O, Viazlo, O & ATLAS Collaboration 2016, 'Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol. 761, pp. 158-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020

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