New Journal of Physics (Jan 2014)
LHC optics measurement with proton tracks detected by the Roman pots of the TOTEM experiment
- The TOTEM Collaboration,
- G Antchev,
- P Aspell,
- I Atanassov,
- V Avati,
- J Baechler,
- V Berardi,
- M Berretti,
- E Bossini,
- U Bottigli,
- M Bozzo,
- E Brücken,
- A Buzzo,
- F S Cafagna,
- M G Catanesi,
- C Covault,
- M Csanád,
- T Csörgö,
- M Deile,
- M Doubek,
- K Eggert,
- V Eremin,
- F Ferro,
- A Fiergolski,
- F Garcia,
- V Georgiev,
- S Giani,
- L Grzanka,
- J Hammerbauer,
- J Heino,
- T Hilden,
- A Karev,
- J Kašpar,
- J Kopal,
- V Kundrát,
- S Lami,
- G Latino,
- R Lauhakangas,
- T Leszko,
- E Lippmaa,
- J Lippmaa,
- M V Lokajíček,
- L Losurdo,
- M Lo Vetere,
- F Lucas Rodríguez,
- M Macrí,
- T Mäki,
- A Mercadante,
- N Minafra,
- S Minutoli,
- F Nemes,
- H Niewiadomski,
- E Oliveri,
- F Oljemark,
- R Orava,
- M Oriunno,
- K Österberg,
- P Palazzi,
- Z Peroutka,
- J Procházka,
- M Quinto,
- E Radermacher,
- E Radicioni,
- F Ravotti,
- E Robutti,
- L Ropelewski,
- G Ruggiero,
- H Saarikko,
- A Scribano,
- J Smajek,
- W Snoeys,
- J Sziklai,
- C Taylor,
- N Turini,
- V Vacek,
- J Welti,
- J Whitmore,
- P Wyszkowski,
- K Zielinski
Affiliations
- The TOTEM Collaboration
- G Antchev
- INRNE-BAS, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- P Aspell
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- I Atanassov
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; INRNE-BAS, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- V Avati
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- J Baechler
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- V Berardi
- INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy; Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica di Bari, Italy
- M Berretti
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- E Bossini
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- U Bottigli
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- M Bozzo
- INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy; Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
- E Brücken
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- A Buzzo
- INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
- F S Cafagna
- INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- M G Catanesi
- INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- C Covault
- Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Physics, Cleveland, OH, USA
- M Csanád
- MTA Wigner Research Center, RMKI Budapest, Hungary; Department of Atomic Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
- T Csörgö
- MTA Wigner Research Center, RMKI Budapest, Hungary
- M Deile
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- M Doubek
- Czech Technical University, Praha, Czech Republic
- K Eggert
- Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Physics, Cleveland, OH, USA
- V Eremin
- Ioffe Physical—Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
- F Ferro
- INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
- A Fiergolski
- INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy; Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
- F Garcia
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
- V Georgiev
- University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- S Giani
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- L Grzanka
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland; Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Cracow, Poland
- J Hammerbauer
- University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- J Heino
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
- T Hilden
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- A Karev
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- J Kašpar
- Institute of Physics, ASCR, Praha, Czech Republic; CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- J Kopal
- Institute of Physics, ASCR, Praha, Czech Republic; CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- V Kundrát
- Institute of Physics, ASCR, Praha, Czech Republic
- S Lami
- INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- G Latino
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- R Lauhakangas
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
- T Leszko
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
- E Lippmaa
- National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia
- J Lippmaa
- National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia
- M V Lokajíček
- Institute of Physics, ASCR, Praha, Czech Republic
- L Losurdo
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- M Lo Vetere
- INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy; Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
- F Lucas Rodríguez
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- M Macrí
- INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
- T Mäki
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
- A Mercadante
- INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- N Minafra
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica di Bari, Italy; CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- S Minutoli
- INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
- F Nemes
- MTA Wigner Research Center, RMKI Budapest, Hungary; Department of Atomic Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
- H Niewiadomski
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- E Oliveri
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- F Oljemark
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- R Orava
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- M Oriunno
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford CA, USA
- K Österberg
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- P Palazzi
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- Z Peroutka
- University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- J Procházka
- Institute of Physics, ASCR, Praha, Czech Republic
- M Quinto
- INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy; Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica di Bari, Italy
- E Radermacher
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- E Radicioni
- INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- F Ravotti
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- E Robutti
- INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
- L Ropelewski
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- G Ruggiero
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- H Saarikko
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- A Scribano
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- J Smajek
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- W Snoeys
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- J Sziklai
- MTA Wigner Research Center, RMKI Budapest, Hungary
- C Taylor
- Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Physics, Cleveland, OH, USA
- N Turini
- Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
- V Vacek
- Czech Technical University, Praha, Czech Republic
- J Welti
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- J Whitmore
- Penn State University, Dept. of Physics, University Park, PA, USA
- P Wyszkowski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
- K Zielinski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/10/103041
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 16,
no. 10
p. 103041
Abstract
Precise knowledge of the beam optics at the LHC is crucial to fulfill the physics goals of the TOTEM experiment, where the kinematics of the scattered protons is reconstructed with near-beam telescopes—so-called Roman pots (RP). Before being detected, the protons’ trajectories are influenced by the magnetic fields of the accelerator lattice. Thus precise understanding of the proton transport is of key importance for the experiment. A novel method of optics evaluation is proposed which exploits kinematical distributions of elastically scattered protons observed in the RPs. Theoretical predictions, as well as Monte Carlo studies, show that the residual uncertainty of the optics estimation method is smaller than $2.5$ .
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