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Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 761, 10.10.2016, p. 158-178.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2016, 'Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters B, vol. 761, pp. 158-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020

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The ATLAS collaboration (2016). Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 761, 158-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020

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The ATLAS collaboration. Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B. 2016 Oct 10;761:158-178. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Physics Letters B. 2016 ; Vol. 761. pp. 158-178.

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title = "Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at √s = 8 TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb−1 was accumulated in a special run with high-β beam optics to measure the differential elastic cross section as a function of the Mandelstam momentum transfer variable t. The measurement is performed with the ALFA sub-detector of ATLAS. Using a fit to the differential elastic cross section in the −t range from 0.014 GeV2 to 0.1 GeV2 to extrapolate t → 0, the total cross section, σtot(pp → X), is measured via the optical theorem to be: σtot(pp → X) = 96.07 ± 0.18 (stat.) ± 0.85 (exp.) ± 0.31 (extr.) mb, where the first error is statistical, the second accounts for all experimental systematic uncertainties and the last is related to uncertainties in the extrapolation t → 0. In addition, the slope of the exponential function describing the elastic cross section at small t is determined to be B = 19.74 ± 0.05 (stat.) ± 0.23 (syst.) GeV−2.",
author = "Barton, {Adam Edward} and Michael Beattie and Bertram, {Iain Alexander} and Guennadi Borissov and Bouhova-Thacker, {Evelina Vassileva} and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Grimm, {Kathryn Ann Tschann} and Henderson, {Robert Charles William} and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Long, {Robin Eamonn} and Love, {Peter Allan} and Muenstermann, {Daniel Matthias Alfred} and Parker, {Adam Jackson} and Malcolm Skinner and Maria Smizanska and Walder, {James William} and Andy Wharton and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann

AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

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AU - Muenstermann, Daniel Matthias Alfred

AU - Parker, Adam Jackson

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N2 - A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at √s = 8 TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb−1 was accumulated in a special run with high-β beam optics to measure the differential elastic cross section as a function of the Mandelstam momentum transfer variable t. The measurement is performed with the ALFA sub-detector of ATLAS. Using a fit to the differential elastic cross section in the −t range from 0.014 GeV2 to 0.1 GeV2 to extrapolate t → 0, the total cross section, σtot(pp → X), is measured via the optical theorem to be: σtot(pp → X) = 96.07 ± 0.18 (stat.) ± 0.85 (exp.) ± 0.31 (extr.) mb, where the first error is statistical, the second accounts for all experimental systematic uncertainties and the last is related to uncertainties in the extrapolation t → 0. In addition, the slope of the exponential function describing the elastic cross section at small t is determined to be B = 19.74 ± 0.05 (stat.) ± 0.23 (syst.) GeV−2.

AB - A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at √s = 8 TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb−1 was accumulated in a special run with high-β beam optics to measure the differential elastic cross section as a function of the Mandelstam momentum transfer variable t. The measurement is performed with the ALFA sub-detector of ATLAS. Using a fit to the differential elastic cross section in the −t range from 0.014 GeV2 to 0.1 GeV2 to extrapolate t → 0, the total cross section, σtot(pp → X), is measured via the optical theorem to be: σtot(pp → X) = 96.07 ± 0.18 (stat.) ± 0.85 (exp.) ± 0.31 (extr.) mb, where the first error is statistical, the second accounts for all experimental systematic uncertainties and the last is related to uncertainties in the extrapolation t → 0. In addition, the slope of the exponential function describing the elastic cross section at small t is determined to be B = 19.74 ± 0.05 (stat.) ± 0.23 (syst.) GeV−2.

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