TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Amoros, G.
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  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lacuesta, V. R.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Miñano, M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Moles-Valls, R.
AU  - Moreno Llacer, M.
AU  - Oliver Garcia, E.
AU  - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
AU  - Romero Adam, E.
AU  - Ros, E.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Solans, C. A.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Torro Pastor, E.
AU  - Valladolid Gallego, E.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Villaplana Perez, M.
AU  - Vos, M.
AU  - Wildauer, A.
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Rapidity gap cross sections measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
T2  - Eur. Phys. J. C
JO  - European Physical Journal C
SP  - 1926
EP  - 31pp
VL  - 72
IS  - 3
PB  - Springer
AB  - Pseudorapidity gap distributions in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV are studied using a minimum bias data sample with an integrated luminosity of 7.1 μb(-1). Cross sections are measured differentially in terms of Delta eta(F), the larger of the pseudorapidity regions extending to the limits of the ATLAS sensitivity, at eta = +/- 4.9, in which no final state particles are produced above a transverse momentum threshold p(T)(cut). The measurements span the region 0 < Delta eta(F) < 8 for 200 MeV < p(T)(cut) < 800 MeV. At small Delta eta(F), the data test the reliability of hadronisation models in describing rapidity and transverse momentum fluctuations in final state particle production. The measurements at larger gap sizes are dominated by contributions from the single diffractive dissociation process (pp -> Xp), enhanced by double dissociation (pp -> XY) where the invariant mass of the lighter of the two dissociation systems satisfies M-Y less than or similar to 7 GeV. The resulting cross section is ds sigma/d Delta eta(F) approximate to 1 mb for Delta eta(F) greater than or similar to 3. The large rapidity gap data are used to constrain the value of the Pomeron intercept appropriate to triple Regge models of soft diffraction. The cross section integrated over all gap sizes is compared with other LHC inelastic cross section measurements.
SN  - 1434-6044
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1201.2808
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1926-0
DO  - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1926-0
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000302540000042
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012
ER  -