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Van der Meer Scan

The Van der Meer scan is a precision measurement technique for determining the absolute luminosity at particle colliders by mechanically separating the colliding beams and measuring the collision rate as a function of beam separation. This fundamental calibration is essential for all cross-section measurements and physics analyses at the LHC and other hadron colliders.

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Van der Meer Beam Overlap Measurement
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / particle-physics
  • Van der Meer, S. (1985). Stochastic damping of betatron oscillations in the ISR. CERN-ISR-PO/85-5. · URL
  • Bruning, O., et al. (2004). LHC Design Report. CERN-2004-003. · URL
  • Hertzbach, S. S., et al. (2009). Precision measurement of luminosity at hadron colliders. Modern Physics Letters A, 24(07), 531–548. · URL
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