Published August 10, 2016
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Measurement of the inelastic cross section in proton–lead collisions at √SNN = 5.02 TeV
Abstract
The inelastic hadronic cross section in proton–lead collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV is measured with the CMS detector at the LHC. The data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of L=12.6±0.4 nb^(−1), has been collected with an unbiased trigger for inclusive particle production. The cross section is obtained from the measured number of proton–lead collisions with hadronic activity produced in the pseudorapidity ranges 3<η<5 and/or −5<η<−3, corrected for photon-induced contributions, experimental acceptance, and other instrumental effects. The inelastic cross section is measured to be σ_(inel)(pPb)=2061±3(stat)±34(syst)±72(lumi) mb. Various Monte Carlo generators, commonly used in heavy ion and cosmic ray physics, are found to reproduce the data within uncertainties. The value of σ_(inel)(pPb is compatible with that expected from the proton–proton cross section at 5.02 TeV scaled up within a simple Glauber approach to account for multiple scatterings in the lead nucleus, indicating that further net nuclear corrections are small.
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© 2016 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3. Received 13 September 2015; Received in revised form 11 June 2016; Accepted 12 June 2016; Available online 16 June 2016. Editor: M. Doser. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MOST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund; the OPUS programme of the National Science Center (Poland); the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste); MIUR project 20108T4XTM (Italy); the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845.Attached Files
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- Measurement of the inelastic cross section in proton-lead collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV
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- Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW)
- FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)
- Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- Ministry of Science and Technology, China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
- Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport
- Croatian Science Foundation
- Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus
- Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
- Estonian Research Council
- European Regional Development Fund, Estonia
- Academy of Finland
- Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
- National Innovation Office, Hungary
- Department of Atomic Energy, India
- Department of Science and Technology, India
- Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran
- Science Foundation, Ireland
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Korea
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
- Ministry of Education, Malaysia
- University of Malaya, Malaysia
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV)
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)
- Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP)
- Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí Inicio-Facultad de Ingeniería (UASLP-FAI)
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand
- Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland
- National Science Centre, Poland
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
- RosAtom, Russia
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia
- Secretaría for Research, Development and Innovation (SEIDI)
- Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (CPAN)
- Swiss Funding Agencies, Switzerland
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei
- Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics
- Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand
- Special Task Force for Activating Research, Thailand
- National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand
- Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu (TÜBİTAK)
- Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK)
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- State Fund for Fundamental Researches, Ukraine
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Marie-Curie Programme
- European Research Council
- EPLANET
- Leventis Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
- Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
- Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic
- Council of Science and Industrial Research, India
- Foundation for Polish Science HOMING PLUS Programme
- European Union, Regional Development Fund
- National Science Center, Poland, OPUS Programme
- Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino)
- Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste)
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università della Ricerca (MIUR)
- 20108T4XTM
- Thalis Programme
- Aristeia Programme
- European Union, European Social Fund
- National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)
- Qatar National Research Fund National Priorities Research Program
- Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Welch Foundation
- C-1845
- SCOAP3
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