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Elastic differential cross-section measurement at π‘ βˆš=13 TeV by TOTEM

Antchev, G.
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Royon, Christophe
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TOTEM collaboration
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The TOTEM collaboration has measured the elastic proton-proton differential cross section d𝜎/d𝑑 at π‘ βˆš=13 TeV LHC energy using dedicated π›½βˆ—=90 m beam optics. The Roman Pot detectors were inserted to 10𝜎 distance from the LHC beam, which allowed the measurement of the range [0.04 GeV2; 4 GeV2 ] in four-momentum transfer squared |t|. The efficient data acquisition allowed to collect about 109 elastic events to precisely measure the differential cross-section including the diffractive minimum (dip), the subsequent maximum (bump) and the large-|t| tail. The average nuclear slope has been found to be 𝐡=(20.40Β±0.002statΒ±0.01syst) GeVβˆ’2 in the |t|-range 0.04–0.2 GeV2. The dip position is |𝑑dip|=(0.47Β±0.004statΒ±0.01syst) GeV2. The differential cross section ratio at the bump vs. at the dip 𝑅=1.77Β±0.01stat has been measured with high precision. The series of TOTEM elastic pp measurements show that the dip is a permanent feature of the pp differential cross-section at the TeV scale.
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2019-10-19
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Antchev, G., Aspell, P., Atanassov, I. et al. Elastic differential cross-section measurement at π‘ βˆš=13 TeV by TOTEM. Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 861 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7346-7
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10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7346-7
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