Forward Physics with Rapidity Gaps at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2015-05-13 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
A rapidity gap program with great potential can be realized at the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, by adding a few simple forward shower counters (FSCs) along the beam line on both sides of the main central detectors, such as CMS. Measurements of single diffractive cross sections down to the lowest masses can be made with an efficient level-1 trigger. Exceptionally, the detectors also make feasible the study of Central Diffractive Excitation, and in particular the reaction g + g to g + g, in the color singlet channel, effectively using the LHC as a gluon-gluon collider.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0811.0120,
title = {Forward Physics with Rapidity Gaps at the LHC},
author = {Michael Albrow and Albert De Roeck and Valery Khoze and Jerry Lamsa and E. Norbeck and Y. Onel and Risto Orava and M. G. Ryskin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0120},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
15 pages, 11 figures