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Inelastic proton-proton cross section measurements in CMS at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV

We present measurements of the total inelastic pp cross section at 7 TeV obtained with the CMS detector. Two different methods are used. In runs with low event pile-up, we exploit the large pseudorapidity coverage ($\eta<5.2$) of the CMS calorimeters to obtain the cross section for events with an...

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Autor principal: Zsigmond, Anna Julia
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1457407
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Sumario:We present measurements of the total inelastic pp cross section at 7 TeV obtained with the CMS detector. Two different methods are used. In runs with low event pile-up, we exploit the large pseudorapidity coverage ($\eta<5.2$) of the CMS calorimeters to obtain the cross section for events with any activity in the acceptance range. In addition, runs with high event pile-up are used by fitting a Poisson distribution with the total visible cross section as parameter to the number of reconstructed primary vertices. Both measurements are corrected to a hadron level definition of the inelastic cross section.