The TOTEM/CMS forward experiment at the LHC

✍ Scribed by K. Eggert

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 784 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)80437-1

✦ Synopsis

At the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proton-proton and heavy ion collisions will be studied at energies corresponding to i&b = 10" eV cosmic-ray interactions. The possibilities to measure event topologies in these interactions that are relevant for the interpretation of cosmic-ray data are described. Minimum bias events are best studied in low luminosity (L = 1O28 cmb2 s-l) runs with a beam optic with p' of 1100 m. In particular, the combination of the TOTEM and CMS experiments allow a large pseudorapidity coverage for charged and neutral particles with simultaneous measurement of diffractive protons. The total cross-section will be determined to within 1%.