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Indirect luminosity measurements with LHCb

We report on two studies of indirect luminosity measurements, using events containing muon final states, in LHCb. The first method exploits elastic two photon dimuon production in LHCb. The process has a theoretical uncertainty of less than 1%, making it an ideal choice for use in performing an indi...

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Autores principales: De Lorenzi, F, McNulty, R, Moran, D, Shears, T G
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1206232
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author De Lorenzi, F
McNulty, R
Moran, D
Shears, T G
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McNulty, R
Moran, D
Shears, T G
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description We report on two studies of indirect luminosity measurements, using events containing muon final states, in LHCb. The first method exploits elastic two photon dimuon production in LHCb. The process has a theoretical uncertainty of less than 1%, making it an ideal choice for use in performing an indirect luminosity measurement in hadron colliders. Strategies for triggering, selection and background rejection are discussed. Our studies indicate that a measurement precision of 1% can be obtained with 1fb$^-^1$ of data. The second method uses measurements of electroweak boson production where a similar precision can be obtained. It should be possible to measure the luminosity to better than 1% precision by combining both approaches.
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spelling cern-12062322019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1206232engDe Lorenzi, FMcNulty, RMoran, DShears, T GIndirect luminosity measurements with LHCbParticle Physics - ExperimentWe report on two studies of indirect luminosity measurements, using events containing muon final states, in LHCb. The first method exploits elastic two photon dimuon production in LHCb. The process has a theoretical uncertainty of less than 1%, making it an ideal choice for use in performing an indirect luminosity measurement in hadron colliders. Strategies for triggering, selection and background rejection are discussed. Our studies indicate that a measurement precision of 1% can be obtained with 1fb$^-^1$ of data. The second method uses measurements of electroweak boson production where a similar precision can be obtained. It should be possible to measure the luminosity to better than 1% precision by combining both approaches.LHCb-PROC-2009-029LHCb-CONF-2009-029CERN-LHCb-CONF-2009-029oai:cds.cern.ch:12062322009-09-10
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Experiment
De Lorenzi, F
McNulty, R
Moran, D
Shears, T G
Indirect luminosity measurements with LHCb
title Indirect luminosity measurements with LHCb
title_full Indirect luminosity measurements with LHCb
title_fullStr Indirect luminosity measurements with LHCb
title_full_unstemmed Indirect luminosity measurements with LHCb
title_short Indirect luminosity measurements with LHCb
title_sort indirect luminosity measurements with lhcb
topic Particle Physics - Experiment
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/1206232
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