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Measurement of the total cross section and ρ -parameter from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Measurement of the total cross section and ρ -parameter from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / ATLAS Collaboration ; Barton, Adam; Bertram, Iain et al.
In: European Physical Journal C, Vol. 83, No. 5, 441, 26.05.2023.

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ATLAS Collaboration, Barton, A, Bertram, I, Borissov, G, Bouhova-Thacker, E, Fox, H, Henderson, R, Jones, RWL, Kartvelishvili, V, Love, P, Meng, L, Muenstermann, D, Rybacki, K, Smizanska, M, Spinali, S, Wharton, A & Yexley, M 2023, 'Measurement of the total cross section and ρ -parameter from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector', European Physical Journal C, vol. 83, no. 5, 441. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11436-8

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ATLAS Collaboration, Barton, A., Bertram, I., Borissov, G., Bouhova-Thacker, E., Fox, H., Henderson, R., Jones, R. W. L., Kartvelishvili, V., Love, P., Meng, L., Muenstermann, D., Rybacki, K., Smizanska, M., Spinali, S., Wharton, A., & Yexley, M. (2023). Measurement of the total cross section and ρ -parameter from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C, 83(5), Article 441. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11436-8

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ATLAS Collaboration, Barton A, Bertram I, Borissov G, Bouhova-Thacker E, Fox H et al. Measurement of the total cross section and ρ -parameter from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C. 2023 May 26;83(5):441. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11436-8

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ATLAS Collaboration ; Barton, Adam ; Bertram, Iain et al. / Measurement of the total cross section and ρ -parameter from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: European Physical Journal C. 2023 ; Vol. 83, No. 5.

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title = "Measurement of the total cross section and ρ -parameter from elastic scattering in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "In a special run of the LHC with β⋆=2.5 km, proton–proton elastic-scattering events were recorded at s√=13 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 340 μb−1 using the ALFA subdetector of ATLAS in 2016. The elastic cross section was measured differentially in the Mandelstam t variable in the range from −t=2.5⋅10−4 GeV2 to −t=0.46 GeV2 using 6.9 million elastic-scattering candidates. This paper presents measurements of the total cross section σtot, parameters of the nuclear slope, and the ρ-parameter defined as the ratio of the real part to the imaginary part of the elastic-scattering amplitude in the limit t→0. These parameters are determined from a fit to the differential elastic cross section using the optical theorem and different parameterizations of the t-dependence. The results for σtot and ρ areσtot(pp→X)=104.7±1.1 mb ,ρ=0.098±0.011.The uncertainty in σtot is dominated by the luminosity measurement, and in ρ by imperfect knowledge of the detector alignment and by modelling of the nuclear amplitude.",
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AU - ATLAS Collaboration

AU - Barton, Adam

AU - Bertram, Iain

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Henderson, Robert

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Love, Peter

AU - Meng, Lingxin

AU - Muenstermann, Daniel

AU - Rybacki, Katherine

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Spinali, Sebastiano

AU - Wharton, Andrew

AU - Yexley, Melissa

PY - 2023/5/26

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N2 - In a special run of the LHC with β⋆=2.5 km, proton–proton elastic-scattering events were recorded at s√=13 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 340 μb−1 using the ALFA subdetector of ATLAS in 2016. The elastic cross section was measured differentially in the Mandelstam t variable in the range from −t=2.5⋅10−4 GeV2 to −t=0.46 GeV2 using 6.9 million elastic-scattering candidates. This paper presents measurements of the total cross section σtot, parameters of the nuclear slope, and the ρ-parameter defined as the ratio of the real part to the imaginary part of the elastic-scattering amplitude in the limit t→0. These parameters are determined from a fit to the differential elastic cross section using the optical theorem and different parameterizations of the t-dependence. The results for σtot and ρ areσtot(pp→X)=104.7±1.1 mb ,ρ=0.098±0.011.The uncertainty in σtot is dominated by the luminosity measurement, and in ρ by imperfect knowledge of the detector alignment and by modelling of the nuclear amplitude.

AB - In a special run of the LHC with β⋆=2.5 km, proton–proton elastic-scattering events were recorded at s√=13 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 340 μb−1 using the ALFA subdetector of ATLAS in 2016. The elastic cross section was measured differentially in the Mandelstam t variable in the range from −t=2.5⋅10−4 GeV2 to −t=0.46 GeV2 using 6.9 million elastic-scattering candidates. This paper presents measurements of the total cross section σtot, parameters of the nuclear slope, and the ρ-parameter defined as the ratio of the real part to the imaginary part of the elastic-scattering amplitude in the limit t→0. These parameters are determined from a fit to the differential elastic cross section using the optical theorem and different parameterizations of the t-dependence. The results for σtot and ρ areσtot(pp→X)=104.7±1.1 mb ,ρ=0.098±0.011.The uncertainty in σtot is dominated by the luminosity measurement, and in ρ by imperfect knowledge of the detector alignment and by modelling of the nuclear amplitude.

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JO - European Physical Journal C

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