A new direct method for measuring the absolute luminosity at the LHC
by
Ferro-Luzzi, M. (CERN)
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Europe/Zurich
AB Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)
AB Auditorium Meyrin
CERN
Description
A novel method for determining the absolute luminosity in a colliding-beam experiment at circular accelerators is proposed. It uses vertex reconstruction of beam-gas interaction to determine the beam shapes and beam overlap. This method could be applied (for example) at point 8 of the LHC without modification of the LHCb detector.
The method relies also on the determination of the absolute bunch charges by the LHC beam diagnostics.