Central Diffraction in Proton-Proton Collisions at s=7\sqrt{s}=7\,TeV with ALICE at LHC

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Jan, 2013

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Abstract: (AIP)
A double-gap topology is used for filtering central-diffractive events from a protonproton minimum-bias data sample at a centre-of-mass energy Central diffraction in proton-proton collisions at J = J7TeV. This topology is defined by particle activity in the ALICE central barrel and absence of particle activity outside. The fraction of events satisfying the double-gap requirement RDG is found to be 7.63+-0.02(st at.)+-0.87(syst.)Oe10-'4. The background of this double-gap fraction is estimated by studying the contributions of non-diffractive, single-and double-diffractive dissociation processes as modelled by Monte Carlo event generators, and is found to be about 10%.
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  • 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings Diffraction 2012 - International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, Puerto del Carmen, Sept. 10-15, 2012
  • 13.85.Ni
  • high-energy elementary particle interactions
  • proton-proton inclusive interactions
  • diffraction
  • Monte Carlo
  • ALICE
  • nondiffractive
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • dissociation
  • background