@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2011,
author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
and Amoros, G.
and Cabrera Urban, S.
and Castillo Gimenez, V.
and Costa, M. J.
and Escobar, C.
and Ferrer, A.
and Fuster, J.
and Garcia, C.
and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
and Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
and Higon-Rodriguez, E.
and Irles Quiles, A.
and Kaci, M.
and Lacasta, C.
and Lacuesta, V. R.
and Marti-Garcia, S.
and Mi{\~A}{\textpm}ano, M.
and Mitsou, V. A.
and Moles-Valls, R.
and Moreno Llacer, M.
and Oliver Garcia, E.
and Perez Garcia-Esta{\~A}{\textpm}, M. T.
and Ros, E.
and Salt, J.
and Solans, C. A.
and Soldevila, U.
and Sanchez, J.
and Torro Pastor, E.
and Valladolid Gallego, E.
and Valls Ferrer, J. A.
and Villaplana Perez, M.
and Vos, M.
and Wildauer, A.",
title="Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross-section at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector",
journal="Nature Communications",
year="2011",
publisher="Nature Publishing Group",
volume="2",
pages="463 - 14pp",
abstract="The dependence of the rate of proton-proton interactions on the centre-of-mass collision energy, root s, is of fundamental importance for both hadron collider physics and particle astrophysics. The dependence cannot yet be calculated from first principles; therefore, experimental measurements are needed. Here we present the first measurement of the inelastic proton-proton interaction cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy, root s, of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected by requiring hits on scintillation counters mounted in the forward region of the detector. An inelastic crosssection of 60.3 +/- 2.1 mb is measured for xi > 5x10(-6), where xi is calculated from the invariant mass, M(X), of hadrons selected using the largest rapidity gap in the event. For diffractive events, this corresponds to requiring at least one of the dissociation masses to be larger than 15.7 GeV.",
optnote="WOS:000294807200005",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=758), last updated on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:00:11 +0000",
issn="2041-1723",
doi="10.1038/ncomms1472",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1104.0326",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1472",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="arXiv:1104.0326",
language="English"
}