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LHCb Collaboration (Including: Back, J. J., Blake, Thomas, Craik, Daniel, Dossett, D., Gershon, T. J., Kreps, Michal, Langenbruch, Christoph, Latham, Thomas, O'Hanlon, Daniel P., Pilar, T., Poluektov, Anton, Reid, Matthew M., Silva Coutinho, R., Wallace, Charlotte and Whitehead, M. (Mark)). (2014) Precision luminosity measurements at LHCb. Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume 9 . Article number P12005 . doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/12/P12005
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/12/P12005
Abstract
Measuring cross-sections at the LHC requires the luminosity to be determined accurately at each centre-of-mass energy √s. In this paper results are reported from the luminosity calibrations carried out at the LHC interaction point 8 with the LHCb detector for √s = 2.76, 7 and 8 TeV (proton-proton collisions) and for √sNN = 5 TeV (proton-lead collisions). Both the "van der Meer scan" and "beam-gas imaging" luminosity calibration methods were employed. It is observed that the beam density profile cannot always be described by a function that is factorizable in the two transverse coordinates. The introduction of a two-dimensional description of the beams improves significantly the consistency of the results. For proton-proton interactions at √s = 8 TeV a relative precision of the luminosity calibration of 1.47% is obtained using van der Meer scans and 1.43% using beam-gas imaging, resulting in a combined precision of 1.12%. Applying the calibration to the full data set determines the luminosity with a precision of 1.16%. This represents the most precise luminosity measurement achieved so far at a bunched-beam hadron collider.
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