Measurement of visible cross sections in proton-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV in van der Meer scans with the ALICE detector

Abstract

In 2013, the Large Hadron Collider provided proton-lead and lead-proton collisions at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV. Van der Meer scans were performed for both configurations of colliding beams, and the cross section was measured for two reference processes, based on particle detection by the T0 and V0 detectors, with pseudo-rapidity coverage $4.6<\eta <4.9$, $-3.3<\eta <-3.0$ and $2.8<\eta <5.1$, $-3.7<\eta <-1.7$, respectively. Given the asymmetric detector acceptance, the cross section was measured separately for the two configurations. The measured visible cross sections are used to calculate the integrated luminosity of the proton-lead and lead-proton data samples, and to indirectly measure the cross section for a third, configuration-independent, reference process, based on neutron detection by the Zero Degree Calorimeters.

23 pages, 11 captioned figures, 4 tables, authors from page 18, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/812

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