TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al AU - Alvarez Piqueras, D. AU - Barranco Navarro, L. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Cerda Alberich, L. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Fernandez Martinez, P. 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 - Jimenez Pena, J. AU - King, M. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lacuesta, V. R. AU - Mamuzic, J. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Melini, D. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Pedraza Lopez, S. AU - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D. AU - Romero Adam, E. AU - Ros, E. AU - Salt, J. AU - Sanchez Martinez, V. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2016 DA - 2016// TI - Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC T2 - Phys. Rev. Lett. JO - Physical Review Letters SP - 182002 EP - 19pp VL - 117 IS - 18 PB - Amer Physical Soc AB - This Letter presents a measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section using 60 μb(-1) of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy root s of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Inelastic interactions are selected using rings of plastic scintillators in the forward region (2.07 s > 10(-6), where M-X is the larger invariant mass of the two hadronic systems separated by the largest rapidity gap in the event. In this xi range the scintillators are highly efficient. For diffractive events this corresponds to cases where at least one proton dissociates to a system with M-X > 13 GeV. The measured cross section is compared with a range of theoretical predictions. When extrapolated to the full phase space, a cross section of 78.1 +/- 2.9 mb is measured, consistent with the inelastic cross section increasing with center-of-mass energy. SN - 0031-9007 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02625 UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.182002 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.182002 LA - English N1 - WOS:000390226100002 ID - ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2016 ER -