LHC as $\pi p$ and $\pi \pi$ Collider

Abstract

We propose an experiment at the LHC with leading neutron production.The latter can be used to extract from it the total ${\pi }^{+}p$ cross-sections. With two leading neutrons we can get access to the total ${\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{+}$ cross-sections. In this note we give some estimates and discuss related problems and prospects.

22 pages, 18 figures, 8 tables, to be published

References in corpus (5)

• PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
• Leading neutron spectra
• Damping of forward neutrons in pp collisions
• Leading neutrons from polarized pp collisions
• EDDE Monte Carlo event generator.Version 2.1

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