TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Garcia Navarro, J. E. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Hernandez Jimenez, Y. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Irles Quiles, A. AU - Kaci, M. AU - King, M. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lacuesta, V. R. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Moles-Valls, R. AU - Oliver Garcia, E. AU - Pedraza Lopez, S. AU - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. AU - Romero Adam, E. AU - Ros, E. AU - Salt, J. AU - Sanchez Martinez, V. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Torro Pastor, E. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valladolid Gallego, E. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2014 DA - 2014// TI - Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector T2 - Nucl. Phys. B JO - Nuclear Physics B SP - 486 EP - 548 VL - 889 PB - Elsevier Science Bv AB - A measurement of the total pp cross section at the LHC at root s = 7 TeV is presented. In a special run with high-beta* beam optics, an integrated luminosity of 80 μb(-1) was accumulated in order 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 vertical bar t vertical bar range from 0.01 GeV2 to 0.1 GeV2 to extrapolate to vertical bar t vertical bar --> 0, the total cross section, sigma(tot)(pp --> X), is measured via the optical theorem to be: sigma(tot)(pp --> X) = 95.35 +/- 0.38 (stat.) +/- 1.25 (exp.) +/- 0.37 (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 to vertical bar t vertical bar --> 0. In addition, the slope of the elastic cross section at small vertical bar t vertical bar is determined to be B = 19.73 +/- 0.14 (stat.) +/- 0.26 (syst.) GeV-2. SN - 0550-3213 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5778 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019 DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.019 LA - English N1 - WOS:000347016900021 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2014 ER -