Tuesday, May 15, 2012

1205.3142 (Anna Julia Zsigmond et al.)

Inelastic proton-proton cross section measurements in CMS at sqrt(s)=7
TeV
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Anna Julia Zsigmond, for the CMS Collaboration
We present measurements of the total inelastic pp cross section at 7 TeV obtained with the CMS detector. Two different methods are used. In runs with low event pile-up, we exploit the large pseudorapidity coverage (|\eta|<5.2) of the CMS calorimeters to obtain the cross section for events with any activity in the acceptance range. In addition, runs with high event pile-up are used by fitting a Poisson distribution with the total visible cross section as parameter to the number of reconstructed primary vertices. Both measurements are corrected to a hadron level definition of the inelastic cross section.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3142

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