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| Article | |
| Title | An absolute luminosity monitor for the LHCb experiment |
| Author(s) | Laštovička, T (CERN) |
| Publication | 2007 |
| In: | Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 582 (2007) 790-794 |
| In: | 15th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors, Perugia, Italy, 25 - 29 Sep 2006, pp.790-794 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.nima.2007.07.092 |
| Subject category | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC ; LHCb |
| Abstract | A novel method of measuring the absolute luminosity at colliding beam experiments is proposed. The method is based on a measurement of beam–gas interaction vertices to determine beam shapes and overlaps. This method can be applied at the LHCb experiment without the need for any modifications of existing sub-detectors and it is entirely based on the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) silicon tracker. |