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EPL
Volume 96, Number 2, October 2011
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Article Number | 21002 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/21002 | |
Published online | 10 October 2011 |
First measurement of the total proton-proton cross-section at the LHC energy of
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Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - Praha, Czech Republic, EU
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Czech Technical University - Praha, Czech Republic, EU
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National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics NICPB - Tallinn, Estonia, EU
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Helsinki Institute of Physics - Helsinki, Finland, EU
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Department of Physics, University of Helsinki - Helsinki, Finland, EU
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MTA KFKI RMKI - Budapest, Hungary, EU
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INFN Sezione di Bari - Bari, Italy, EU
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Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica di Bari - Bari, Italy, EU
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Sezione INFN di Genova - Genova, Italy, EU
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Università degli Studi di Genova - Genova, Italy, EU
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INFN Sezione di Pisa - Pisa, Italy, EU
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Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena - Siena, Italy, EU
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CERN - Geneva, Switzerland
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Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Penn State University, Department of Physics - University Park, PA, USA
Received:
27
September
2011
Accepted:
28
September
2011
TOTEM has measured the differential cross-section for elastic proton-proton scattering at the LHC energy of analysing data from a short run with dedicated large-β* optics. A single exponential fit with a slope B=(20.1±0.2stat±0.3syst) GeV−2 describes the range of the four-momentum transfer squared |t| from 0.02 to 0.33 GeV2. After the extrapolation to |t|=0, a total elastic scattering cross-section of (24.8±0.2stat±1.2syst) mb was obtained. Applying the optical theorem and using the luminosity measurement from CMS, a total proton-proton cross-section of (98.3±0.2stat±2.8syst) mb was deduced which is in good agreement with the expectation from the overall fit of previously measured data over a large range of center-of-mass energies. From the total and elastic pp cross-section measurements, an inelastic pp cross-section of was inferred.
PACS: 13.60.Hb – Total and inclusive cross sections (including deep-inelastic processes)
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