Notes on Van der Meer scan for absolute luminosity measurement

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

Volumn 654, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 634-638

  Balagura, Vladislav ^a,b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Beam imaging; Luminosity; Van der Meer scan

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE LUMINOSITY; ARBITRARY BEAMS; BEAM IMAGING; LUMINOSITY MEASUREMENT; SCAN-PLANES; SIMPLE METHOD; TRANSVERSE PLANES; VAN DER MEER SCAN;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 80052881358     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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