Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Authors: G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins, O. S. AbouZeid, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B. S. Acharya, L. Adamczyk, D. L. Adams, J. Adelman, S. Adomeit, T. Adye, T. Agatonovic-Jovin, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, M. Agustoni, S. P. Ahlen, F. Ahmadov, G. Aielli, H. Akerstedt, T. P. A. Akesson, G. Akimoto, A. V. Akimov, G. L. Alberghi, J. Albert, S. Albrand, M. J. Alconada Verzini, M. Aleksa, I. N. Aleksandrov, C. Alexa, G. Alexander, G. Alexandre, T. Alexopoulos, M. Alhroob, G. Alimonti, L. Alio, J. Alison, B. M. M. Allbrooke, L. J. Allison, P. P. Allport, J. Almond, A. Aloisio, A. Alonso, F. Alonso, C. Alpigiani, A. Altheimer, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, M. G. Alviggi, K. Amako, Y. Amaral Coutinho, C. Amelung, D. Amidei, S. P. Amor Dos Santos, A. Amorim, S. Amoroso, N. Amram, G. Amundsen, C. Anastopoulos, L. S. Ancu, N. Andari, T. Andeen, C. F. Anders, G. Anders, K. J. Anderson, A. Andreazza, V. Andrei, X. S. Anduaga, S. Angelidakis, I. Angelozzi, P. Anger, A. Angerami, F. Anghinolfi, A. V. Anisenkov, N. Anjos, A. Annovi, A. Antonaki, M. Antonelli, A. Antonov, J. Antos, F. Anulli, M. Aoki, L. Aperio Bella, R. Apolle, G. Arabidze, I. Aracena, Y. Arai, J. P. Araque, A. T. H. Arce, J-F. Arguin, S. Argyropoulos, M. Arik, A. J. Armbruster, O. Arnaez, V. Arnal, K. Augsten, M. Aurousseau, E. L. Barberio, R. L. Bates, D. Benchekroun, A. Bogouch, W. K. Brooks, T. Buanes, Rena ÇİFTÇİ, V. Cindro, T. Djobava, S. Franz, H. Hakobyan, M. Losada
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2014, vol 889, pp 486-548
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019
Summary
A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at root s = 7 TeV is presented. In a special run with high-beta* beam optics, an integrated luminosity of 80 mu b(-1) was accumulated in order 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 vertical bar t vertical bar range from 0.01 GeV2 to 0.1 GeV2 to extrapolate to vertical bar t vertical bar --> 0, the total cross section, sigma(tot)(pp --> X), is measured via the optical theorem to be: