%0 Journal Article
%T Beam-Background Tests with TOTEM Roman Pot Detectors at the LHC Injection Energy
%A Jan Ka£¿par
%J -
%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments2040020
%X Abstract With the aim of measuring the total cross-section and the ¦Ñ parameter, TOTEM has performed tests of beam conditions at the LHC injection energy of s = 900 GeV . The tests have revealed complications in setting up the LHC collimators to minimise the background observed in the Roman Pot (RP) detectors, summarised in this article. In two tests a subset of the RPs was exposed to background compatible with the physics requirements. If no improvement of the collimation strategy is found, it is shown that a small retraction of the RPs can significantly reduce the observed background level. View Full-Tex
%K TOTEM
%K LHC
%K collimation
%K background
%K elastic scattering
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2410-390X/2/4/20