The total cross section at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-12-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We do not have the ability to perform precise calculations of long-range strong interaction effects, because the effective QCD coupling is not small and so we cannot use perturbation theory. Nevertheless, I show that we know a lot, though not nearly enough. As a measure of our lack of knowledge, the best prediction for the total cross section at LHC energy is 125 +/- 25 mb.
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@article{arxiv.0709.0395,
title = {The total cross section at the LHC},
author = {P. V. Landshoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0395},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Lectures at School on QCD, Calabria, July 2007