Proposal for an absolute luminosity determination in colliding beam experiments using vertex detection of beam-gas interactions

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 553, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 388-399

  Ferro Luzzi, Massimiliano ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Absolute luminosity; Colliding beam experiments; Vertex detection

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE DETECTORS;

ABSOLUTE LUMINOSITY; COLLIDING BEAM EXPERIMENTS; VERTEX DETECTION;

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS;

EID: 27744531406     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.07.010     Document Type: Article

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