Double diffractive cross-section measurement in the forward region at LHC
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2016-08-11 v1
Abstract
The first double diffractive cross-section measurement in the very forward region has been carried out by the TOTEM experiment at the LHC with center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s)=7 TeV. By utilizing the very forward TOTEM tracking detectors T1 and T2, which extend up to |eta|=6.5, a clean sample of double diffractive pp events was extracted. From these events, we measured the cross-section sigma_DD =(116 +- 25) mub for events where both diffractive systems have 4.7 <|eta|_min < 6.5 .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1308.6722,
title = {Double diffractive cross-section measurement in the forward region at LHC},
author = {TOTEM Collaboration and G. Antchev and P. Aspell and I. Atanassov and V. Avati and J. Baechler and V. Berardi and M. Berretti and E. Bossini and U. Bottigli and M. Bozzo and E. Brücken and A. Buzzo and F. S. Cafagna and M. G. Catanesi and M. Csanád and T. Csörgő and M. Deile and K. Eggert and V. Eremin and F. Ferro and A. Fiergolski and F. Garcia and S. Giani and V. Greco and L. Grzanka and J. Heino and T. Hilden and A. Karev and J. Kašpar and J. Kopal and V. Kundrát and K. Kurvinen and S. Lami and G. Latino and R. Lauhakangas and T. Leszko and E. Lippmaa and J. Lippmaa and M. Lokajíček and L. Losurdo and M. Lo Vetere and F. Lucas Rodríguez and M. Macrí and T. Mäki and A. Mercadante and N. Minafra and S. Minutoli and F. Nemes and H. Niewiadomski and E. Oliveri and F. Oljemark and R. Orava and M. Oriunno and K. Österberg and P. Palazzi and J. Procházka and M. Quinto and E. Radermacher and E. Radicioni and F. Ravotti and E. Robutti and L. Ropelewski and G. Ruggiero and H. Saarikko and A. Scribano and J. Smajek and W. Snoeys and J. Sziklai and C. Taylor and N. Turini and V. Vacek and M. Vítek and J. Welti and J. Whitmore and P. Wyszkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6722},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, submitted for publication