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T1 - Luminosity determination in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
AU - Barton, Adam
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva
AU - Brodbeck, Timothy
AU - Catmore, James
AU - Cheatham, Sue
AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre
AU - Davidson, Ruth
AU - de Mora, Lee
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Henderson, Robert
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin
AU - Love, Peter
AU - Ratoff, Peter
AU - Sloan, Terence
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
N1 - This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Measurements of luminosity obtained using the ATLAS detector during early running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at root s = 7 TeV are presented. The luminosity is independently determined using several detectors and multiple algorithms, each having different acceptances, systematic uncertainties and sensitivity to background. The ratios of the luminosities obtained from these methods are monitored as a function of time and of mu, the average number of inelastic interactions per bunch crossing. Residual time- and mu-dependence between the methods is less than 2% for 0 < mu < 2.5. Absolute luminosity calibrations, performed using beam separation scans, have a common systematic uncertainty of +/- 11%, dominated by the measurement of the LHC beam currents. After calibration, the luminosities obtained from the different methods differ by at most +/- 2%. The visible cross sections measured using the beam scans are compared to predictions obtained with the PYTHIA and PHOJET event generators and the ATLAS detector simulation.
AB - Measurements of luminosity obtained using the ATLAS detector during early running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at root s = 7 TeV are presented. The luminosity is independently determined using several detectors and multiple algorithms, each having different acceptances, systematic uncertainties and sensitivity to background. The ratios of the luminosities obtained from these methods are monitored as a function of time and of mu, the average number of inelastic interactions per bunch crossing. Residual time- and mu-dependence between the methods is less than 2% for 0 < mu < 2.5. Absolute luminosity calibrations, performed using beam separation scans, have a common systematic uncertainty of +/- 11%, dominated by the measurement of the LHC beam currents. After calibration, the luminosities obtained from the different methods differ by at most +/- 2%. The visible cross sections measured using the beam scans are compared to predictions obtained with the PYTHIA and PHOJET event generators and the ATLAS detector simulation.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1630-5
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1630-5
M3 - Journal article
VL - 71
JO - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
SN - 1434-6044
IS - 4
M1 - 1630
ER -