LHC optics and elastic scattering measured by the TOTEM experiment

2016/02/19 by F. Nemes, Nemes, Frigyes
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1602.06207

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Abstract

The TOTEM experiment at the LHC has measured proton-proton elastic scattering in dedicated runs at √(s)=7 and 8 TeV centre-of-mass LHC energies. The proton-proton total cross-section σ_{\rm tot} has been derived for both energies using a luminosity independent method. TOTEM has excluded a purely exponential differential cross-section for elastic proton-proton scattering with significance greater than 7σ in the |t| range from 0.027 to 0.2 GeV² at √(s)=8 TeV.

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