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dc.contributor.authorAntchev, G.
dc.contributor.authorRoyon, Christophe
dc.contributor.authorTOTEM Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-11T20:32:46Z
dc.date.available2021-01-11T20:32:46Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-23
dc.identifier.citationAntchev, G., Aspell, P., Atanassov, I. et al. First determination of the 𝜌 parameter at 𝑠√=13 TeV: probing the existence of a colourless C-odd three-gluon compound state. Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 785 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7223-4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/31098
dc.descriptionThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe TOTEM experiment at the LHC has performed the first measurement at 𝑠√=13TeV of the 𝜌 parameter, the real to imaginary ratio of the nuclear elastic scattering amplitude at 𝑡=0, obtaining the following results: 𝜌=0.09±0.01 and 𝜌=0.10±0.01, depending on different physics assumptions and mathematical modelling. The unprecedented precision of the 𝜌 measurement, combined with the TOTEM total cross-section measurements in an energy range larger than 10TeV (from 2.76 to 13TeV), has implied the exclusion of all the models classified and published by COMPETE. The 𝜌 results obtained by TOTEM are compatible with the predictions, from other theoretical models both in the Regge-like framework and in the QCD framework, of a crossing-odd colourless 3-gluon compound state exchange in the t-channel of the proton–proton elastic scattering. On the contrary, if shown that the crossing-odd 3-gluon compound state t-channel exchange is not of importance for the description of elastic scattering, the 𝜌 value determined by TOTEM would represent a first evidence of a slowing down of the total cross-section growth at higher energies. The very low-|t| reach allowed also to determine the absolute normalisation using the Coulomb amplitude for the first time at the LHC and obtain a new total proton–proton cross-section measurement 𝜎tot=(110.3±3.5)mb, completely independent from the previous TOTEM determination. Combining the two TOTEM results yields 𝜎tot=(110.5±2.4)mb.en_US
dc.publisherSpringerOpenen_US
dc.rights© CERN for the benefit of the TOTEM collaboration 2019.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.titleFirst determination of the 𝜌 parameter at 𝑠√=13 TeV: Probing the existence of a colourless C-odd three-gluon compound stateen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorRoyon, Christophe
kusw.kudepartmentPhysics and Astronomyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7223-4en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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