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Rapidity gap cross sections measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=7~TeV

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Rapidity gap cross sections measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=7~TeV. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol. 72, No. 3, 1926, 03.2013.

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The ATLAS collaboration (2013). Rapidity gap cross sections measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=7~TeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 72(3), Article 1926. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1926-0

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The ATLAS collaboration. Rapidity gap cross sections measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=7~TeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2013 Mar;72(3):1926. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1926-0

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Rapidity gap cross sections measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=7~TeV. In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2013 ; Vol. 72, No. 3.

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title = "Rapidity gap cross sections measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=7~TeV",
abstract = "Pseudorapidity gap distributions in proton-proton collisions at s√=7 ~TeV are studied using a minimum bias data sample with an integrated luminosity of 7.1 μb−1. Cross sections are measured differentially in terms of Δη F , the larger of the pseudorapidity regions extending to the limits of the ATLAS sensitivity, at η=±4.9, in which no final state particles are produced above a transverse momentum threshold pcutT . The measurements span the region 0<Δη F <8 for 200~MeV<pcutT<800~MeV . At small Δη F , the data test the reliability of hadronisation models in describing rapidity and transverse momentum fluctuations in final state particle production. The measurements at larger gap sizes are dominated by contributions from the single diffractive dissociation process (pp→Xp), enhanced by double dissociation (pp→XY) where the invariant mass of the lighter of the two dissociation systems satisfies M Y ≲7 GeV. The resulting cross section is dσ/dΔη F ≈1 mb for Δη F ≳3. The large rapidity gap data are used to constrain the value of the Pomeron intercept appropriate to triple Regge models of soft diffraction. The cross section integrated over all gap sizes is compared with other LHC inelastic cross section measurements.",
author = "Adam Barton and Guennadi Borissov and Eva Bouhova-Thacker and Timothy Brodbeck and James Catmore and Alexandre Chilingarov and Ruth Davidson and {de Mora}, Lee and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Robert Henderson and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Robin Long and Peter Love and Peter Ratoff and Maria Smizanska and James Walder and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Brodbeck, Timothy

AU - Catmore, James

AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre

AU - Davidson, Ruth

AU - de Mora, Lee

AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Henderson, Robert

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

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AU - Love, Peter

AU - Ratoff, Peter

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Walder, James

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N2 - Pseudorapidity gap distributions in proton-proton collisions at s√=7 ~TeV are studied using a minimum bias data sample with an integrated luminosity of 7.1 μb−1. Cross sections are measured differentially in terms of Δη F , the larger of the pseudorapidity regions extending to the limits of the ATLAS sensitivity, at η=±4.9, in which no final state particles are produced above a transverse momentum threshold pcutT . The measurements span the region 0<Δη F <8 for 200~MeV<pcutT<800~MeV . At small Δη F , the data test the reliability of hadronisation models in describing rapidity and transverse momentum fluctuations in final state particle production. The measurements at larger gap sizes are dominated by contributions from the single diffractive dissociation process (pp→Xp), enhanced by double dissociation (pp→XY) where the invariant mass of the lighter of the two dissociation systems satisfies M Y ≲7 GeV. The resulting cross section is dσ/dΔη F ≈1 mb for Δη F ≳3. The large rapidity gap data are used to constrain the value of the Pomeron intercept appropriate to triple Regge models of soft diffraction. The cross section integrated over all gap sizes is compared with other LHC inelastic cross section measurements.

AB - Pseudorapidity gap distributions in proton-proton collisions at s√=7 ~TeV are studied using a minimum bias data sample with an integrated luminosity of 7.1 μb−1. Cross sections are measured differentially in terms of Δη F , the larger of the pseudorapidity regions extending to the limits of the ATLAS sensitivity, at η=±4.9, in which no final state particles are produced above a transverse momentum threshold pcutT . The measurements span the region 0<Δη F <8 for 200~MeV<pcutT<800~MeV . At small Δη F , the data test the reliability of hadronisation models in describing rapidity and transverse momentum fluctuations in final state particle production. The measurements at larger gap sizes are dominated by contributions from the single diffractive dissociation process (pp→Xp), enhanced by double dissociation (pp→XY) where the invariant mass of the lighter of the two dissociation systems satisfies M Y ≲7 GeV. The resulting cross section is dσ/dΔη F ≈1 mb for Δη F ≳3. The large rapidity gap data are used to constrain the value of the Pomeron intercept appropriate to triple Regge models of soft diffraction. The cross section integrated over all gap sizes is compared with other LHC inelastic cross section measurements.

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