Performance of the Totem Detectors at the LHC

0424400 - FZÚ 2014 RIV SG eng J - Journal Article
Antchev, G. - Aspell, P. - Atanassov, I. - Kašpar, Jan - Kopal, Josef - Kundrát, Vojtěch - Lokajíček, Miloš V. - Procházka, Jiří … Total 81 authors
Performance of the Totem Detectors at the LHC.
International Journal of Modern Physics. A. Roč. 28, č. 31 (2013), "1330046-1"-"1330046-41". ISSN 0217-751X. E-ISSN 1793-656X
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LG13031
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : accelerators * detectors * instrumentations and measurements * particle tracking detectors
Subject RIV: BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
Impact factor: 1.086, year: 2013

TOTEM is an LHC experiment dedicated to the measurement of the total proton-proton cross section with the luminosity-independent method and to study elastic and diffractive pp scattering at the LHC. To achieve optimum forward coverage for charged particles emitted by the pp collisions in the interaction point IP5, two tracking telescopes, T1 and T2, are installed on each side of the IP5 in the pseudorapidity region 3.1 < |η| < 6.5, and special movable beam-pipe insertions – called Roman Pots (RP) – are placed at distances of 147m and 220m from IP5. This article describes in detail the working of the TOTEM detector to produce physics results in the first three years of operation and data taking at the LHC.
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