Investigating Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering with the Upgraded HADES Spectrometer
G. Perez Andrade*, J. Ritman, P. Wintz  on behalf of the HADES collaboration
*: corresponding author
Full text: pdf
Published on: March 04, 2026
Abstract
An experiment focused on hyperon production was carried out with the upgraded HADES spectrometer. The upgrade includes a new Forward Detector system (FD) consisting of two PANDA-type Straw Tracking Stations, and an RPC. The measurements were performed with a proton beam of $p_{beam}$ = 5.3 GeV/c impinging onto an LH$_{2}$ target.
Proton-proton elastic scattering events were selected based on kinematic observables, and demanding that one proton was detected in the FD ($\theta_{FD} < $ 6 $^{\circ}$), and the other proton was measured in the HADES acceptance (18$^{\circ}<\theta_{H}<$85$^{\circ}$). The number of elastic events, corrected for acceptance and reconstruction efficiency, is used to determine the time-integrated luminosity recorded during this experiment. The measured differential cross-section $d\sigma$ as a function of the square of the 4-momentum transfer $t$ is well described by a function of the form $\text{d}\sigma/\text{d}t = Ae^{-B|t|}$, from which the optical point $A = \text{d}\sigma/\text{d}t\big|_{t=0}$ and the nuclear slope parameter $B$ are obtained. Here the proton-proton elastic scattering event selection will be explained, and preliminary results of $A$ and $B$ will be presented and compared with existing data from other experiments.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.475.0027
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in article format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in proceeding format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.