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Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Morad Aaboud, +85 more
- 01 Dec 2014 - 
- Vol. 761, Iss: 158, pp 158-178
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In this article, a measurement of the total $pp$ cross section at the LHC at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV is presented. But this measurement is performed with the ALFA sub-detector of ATLAS.
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This article is published in Physics Letters B.The article was published on 2014-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 106 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Energy (signal processing).

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An Introduction to PYTHIA 8.2

TL;DR: Pythia 8.2 is the second main release after the complete rewrite from Fortran to C++, and now has reached such a maturity that it offers a complete replacement for most applications, notably for LHC physics studies.
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ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a forward search experiment (FASER), which would be placed downstream of the ATLAS or CMS interaction point (IP) in the very forward region and operated concurrently there.
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Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Morad Aaboud, +2901 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section using 60''μb^{-1} of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy sqrt[s] of 13'TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented.
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Improved Monte Carlo Glauber predictions at present and future nuclear colliders

TL;DR: In this article, the results of an improved Monte Carlo Glauber (MCG) model of relevance for collisions involving nuclei at center-of-mass energies of the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RLHIC), CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ($\sqrt{{s}_{\mathit{NN}}}=2.76--8.2

Measurement of the Total Proton-Proton Cross Section at the ISR. (Abstract)

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first results of a measurement of the total cross-section σ T in proton-proton collisions at equivalent laboratory momenta between 291 and 1480 GeV/c at the CERN Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR).
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Geant4—a simulation toolkit

S. Agostinelli, +126 more
TL;DR: The Gelfant 4 toolkit as discussed by the authors is a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter, including a complete range of functionality including tracking, geometry, physics models and hits.
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TL;DR: The Pythia program as mentioned in this paper can be used to generate high-energy-physics ''events'' (i.e. sets of outgoing particles produced in the interactions between two incoming particles).
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REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group

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A Brief Introduction to PYTHIA 8.1

TL;DR: PYTHIA 8 represents a complete rewrite in C++, and does not yet in every respect replace the old code, but does contain some new physics aspects that should make it an attractive option especially for LHC physics studies.
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