Measurement of the inelastic proton–proton cross-section at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Taylor, Frank E.
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September 2011
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Nature Communications
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Nature Publishing Group
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Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, A.A. Abdelalim, A. Abdesselam, O. Abdinov, B. Abi, et al. “Measurement of the inelastic proton–proton cross-section at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.” Nature Communications 2 (September 6, 2011): 463. © 2011 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
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The dependence of the rate of proton–proton interactions on the centre-of-mass collision energy, √s, is of fundamental importance for both hadron collider physics and particle astrophysics. The dependence cannot yet be calculated from first principles; therefore, experimental measurements are needed. Here we present the first measurement of the inelastic proton–proton interaction cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy, √s, of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected by requiring hits on scintillation counters mounted in the forward region of the detector. An inelastic cross-section of 60.3±2.1 mb is measured for ξ>5×10[superscript −6], where ξ is calculated from the invariant mass, M[subscript X], of hadrons selected using the largest rapidity gap in the event. For diffractive events, this corresponds to requiring at least one of the dissociation masses to be larger than 15.7 GeV.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1472
