Measurement of the inelastic $pp$ cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV

Roel Aaij , Bernardo Adeva , Marco Adinolfi , Ziad Ajaltouni (1) , Simon Akar , Johannes Albrecht , Federico Alessio , Michael Alexander , Alejandro Alfonso Albero , Suvayu Ali , Georgy Alkhazov , Paula Alvarez Cartelle , Antonio Augusto Alves , Sandra Amato , Silvia Amerio , Yasmine Amhis (2) , Liupan An , Lucio Anderlini , Guido Andreassi , Mirco Andreotti , Jason Andrews , Robert Appleby , Flavio Archilli , Philippe d'Argent , Joan Arnau Romeu (3) , Alexander Artamonov , Marina Artuso , Elie Aslanides (3) , Michele Atzeni , Giulio Auriemma , Sebastian Bachmann , John Back , Clarissa Baesso , Sophie Baker , Vladislav Balagura (2) , Wander Baldini , Alexander Baranov , Roger Barlow , Sergey Barsuk (2) , William Barter , Fedor Baryshnikov , Varvara Batozskaya , Vincenzo Battista , Aurelio Bay , John Beddow , Franco Bedeschi , Ignacio Bediaga , Andrew Beiter , Lennaert Bel , Nikita Beliy , Violaine Bellee , Nicoletta Belloli , Konstantin Belous , Ivan Belyaev , Eli Ben-Haim (4) , Giovanni Bencivenni , Sean Benson , Sarah Beranek , Alexander Berezhnoy , Roland Bernet , Daniel Berninghoff , Emilie Bertholet (4) , Alessandro Bertolin , Christopher Betancourt , Federico Betti , Marc-Olivier Bettler , Martinus van Beuzekom , Iaroslava Bezshyiko , Simone Bifani , Pierre Billoir (4) , Alex Birnkraut , Andrea Bizzeti , Mikkel Bjørn , Thomas Blake , Frederic Blanc , Steven Blusk , Valerio Bocci , Thomas Boettcher , Alexander Bondar , Nikolay Bondar , Silvia Borghi , Maxim Borisyak , Martino Borsato , Francesco Bossu (2) , Meriem Boubdir , Themistocles Bowcock , Espen Eie Bowen , Concezio Bozzi , Svende Braun , Michael Brodski , Jolanta Brodzicka , Davide Brundu , Emma Buchanan , Christopher Burr , Albert Bursche , Jan Buytaert , Wiktor Byczynski , Sandro Cadeddu , Hao Cai , Roberto Calabrese , Ryan Calladine , Marta Calvi , Miriam Calvo Gomez , Alessandro Camboni , Pierluigi Campana , Daniel Hugo Campora Perez , Lorenzo Capriotti , Angelo Carbone , Giovanni Carboni , 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1 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
2 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
3 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
4 LPNHE (UMR_7585) - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
5 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules

The cross-section for inelastic proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is measured with the LHCb detector. The fiducial cross-section for inelastic interactions producing at least one prompt long-lived charged particle with momentum p > 2 GeV/c in the pseudorapidity range 2 < η < 5 is determined to be σ$_{acc}$ = 62.2 ± 0.2 ± 2.5 mb. The first uncertainty is the intrinsic systematic uncertainty of the measurement, the second is due to the uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The statistical uncertainty is negligible. Extrapolation to full phase space yields the total inelastic proton-proton cross-section σ$_{inel}$ = 75.4 ± 3.0 ± 4.5 mb, where the first uncertainty is experimental and the second due to the extrapolation. An updated value of the inelastic cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is also reported.

Mots clés: Global features; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Minimum bias; p p: colliding beams; charged particle: long-lived; p p: inelastic scattering; charged particle: transverse momentum; charged particle: rapidity; spectrometer: acceptance; phase space; statistical; transverse momentum dependence; rapidity dependence; LHC-B; CERN LHC Coll; total cross section: measured; experimental results; 13000 GeV-cms

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

Roel Aaij, Bernardo Adeva, Marco Adinolfi, Ziad Ajaltouni, Simon Akar, et al.. Measurement of the inelastic $pp$ cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018, 06, pp.100. ⟨10.1007/JHEP06(2018)100⟩. ⟨hal-01768161⟩