Impact of beam–beam effects on absolute luminosity calibrations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Babaev, A.; Barklow, T.; Karacheban, O.; Kozanecki, W.; Kralik, I.; Mehta, A.; Pasztor, G.; Pieloni, T.; Stickland, D.; Tambasco, C.; Tomas, R.; Wańczyk, J.

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12192-5

Title: Impact of beam–beam effects on absolute luminosity calibrations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Journal Article · 07 January 2024 · European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12192-5 · OSTI ID:2323398

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Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk (Russia); SLAC
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (United States); European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
University Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Institute of Experimental Physics SAS, Kosice (Slovak Republic)
Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), Budapest (Hungary)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
Princeton University, NJ (United States)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland); Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), absolute luminosity calibrations obtained by the van der Meer (vdM) method are affected by the mutual electromagnetic interaction of the two beams. The colliding bunches experience relative orbit shifts, as well as optical distortions akin to the dynamic-β effect, that both depend on the transverse beam separation and must therefore be corrected for when deriving the absolute luminosity scale. In the vdM regime, the beam–beam parameter is small enough that the orbit shift can be calculated analytically. The dynamic-β corrections to the luminometer calibrations, however, had until the end of Run 2 been estimated in the linear approximation only. In this report, the influence of beam–beam effects on the vdM-based luminosity scale is quantified, together with the associated systematic uncertainties, by means of simulations that fully take into account the non-linearity of the beam–beam force, as well as the resulting non-Gaussian distortions of the transverse beam distributions. Two independent multiparticle simulations, one limited to the weak-strong approximation and one that models strong-strong effects in a self-consistent manner, are found in excellent agreement; both predict a percent-level shift of the absolute pp-luminosity values with respect to those assumed until recently in the physics publications of the LHC experiments. These results also provide guidance regarding further studies aimed at reducing the beam–beam-related systematic uncertainty on beam–beam corrections to absolute luminosity calibrations by the van der Meer method.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); Swiss Accelerator Research and Technology Institute (CHART); Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 2323398

Journal Information:: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online), Journal Name: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 84; ISSN 1434-6052

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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