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Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section at s=13 TeV
Ist Teil von
The journal of high energy physics, 2018-07, Vol.2018 (7), p.1-33
Ort / Verlag
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Quelle
EZB Free E-Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A
bstract
A measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of
s
=
13
TeV is presented. The analysis is based on events with energy deposits in the forward calorimeters, which cover pseudorapidities of −6
.
6
< η <
−3
.
0 and +3
.
0
< η <
+5
.
2. An inelastic cross section of 68
.
6 ± 0
.
5(syst) ± 1
.
6(lumi) mb is obtained for events with
M
X
>
4
.
1 GeV and/or
M
Y
>
13 GeV, where
M
X
and
M
Y
are the masses of the diffractive dissociation systems at negative and positive pseudorapidities, respectively. The results are compared with those from other experiments as well as to predictions from high-energy hadron-hadron interaction models.