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Measurement of the inelastic pp cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV

The collaboration
JHEP 1502 (2015) 129, 2015

Abstract (data abstract)
CERN-LHC. The cross-section for inelastic proton-proton collisions, with at least one prompt long-lived charged particle of transverse momentum $p_T>0.2$ GeV/$c$ in the pseudorapidity range $2.0<\eta<4.5$, is measured by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV. The cross-section in this kinematic range is determined to be $\sigma_{inel}^{acc} = 55.0 \pm 2.4$ mb within the spectrometer acceptance with an experimental uncertainty that is dominated by systematic contributions. Extrapolation to the full phase space, using PYTHIA 6, yields $\sigma_{inel} = 66.9 \pm 2.9 \pm 4.4$ mb, where the first uncertainty is experimental and the second is due to the extrapolation.

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Data from Section 5 (page 7)

10.17182/hepdata.69845.v1/t1

The cross-section for inelastic $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV, yielding one or more prompt long-lived...

• #### Table 2

Data from Section 5 (page 8)

10.17182/hepdata.69845.v1/t2

The total cross-section for inelastic $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV, extrapolated using PYTHIA6 and different...