%0 Journal Article
%T Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
%A Alvarez Piqueras, D.
%A Barranco Navarro, L.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Cerda Alberich, L.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Fernandez Martinez, P.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Jimenez Pena, J.
%A King, M.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lacuesta, V. R.
%A Mamuzic, J.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Melini, D.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Pedraza Lopez, S.
%A Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
%A Romero Adam, E.
%A Ros, E.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Martinez, V.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physics Letters B
%D 2016
%V 761
%I Elsevier Science Bv
%@ 0370-2693
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2016
%O WOS:000384469900024
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2935), last updated on Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:43:08 +0000
%X A measurement of the total ppcross section at the LHC at root s = 8TeV is presented. An integrated luminosity of 500 μb(-1) was accumulated in a special run with high-beta* beam optics 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 -t range from 0.014 GeV2 to 0.1 GeV2 to extrapolate t -> 0, the total cross section, sigma(tot)( pp -> X), is measured via the optical theorem to be sigma(tot)(pp -> X) = 96.07 +/- 0.18 (stat.) +/- 0.85 (exp.) +/- 0.31 (extr.) mb, where the first error is statistical, the second accounts for all experimental systematic uncertainties and the last is related to uncertainties in the extrapolation t -> 0. In addition, the slope of the exponential function describing the elastic cross section at small t is determined to be B = 19.74 +/- 0.05 (stat.) +/- 0.23 (syst.) GeV-2.
%R 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06605
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.020
%P 158-178