Status of the AFP project in the ATLAS experiment

0522461 - FZÚ 2020 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Taševský, Marek
Status of the AFP project in the ATLAS experiment.
DIFFRACTION 2014: International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics. Melville: AIP publishing, 2015, Roč. 1654 (2015), s. 1-4, č. článku 090001. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1654. ISBN 9780735412965. ISSN 0094-243X.
[International Workshop on Diffraction in High Energy Physics /8./ (Diffraction 2014). Primosten (HR), 10.09.2014-16.09.2014]
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : particle beam detectors * protons * time of flight mass spectrometry * ATLAS
OECD category: Particles and field physics

Status of the AFP project in the ATLAS experiment is summarized. The AFP system is composed of a tracker to detect intact, diffractively scattered protons, and of a time-of-flight detector serving to suppress background from pile-up interactions. The whole system, located around 210 m from the main ATLAS detector, is placed in Roman Pots which move detectors from and to the incident proton beams. A typical distance of the closest approach of the tracker to these beams is 2–3 mm. The main physics motivation lies in measuring diffractive processes in runs with not a very high amount of pile-up.

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