TOTEM experiment

For other uses, see Totem (disambiguation).

Large Hadron Collider
(LHC)

Plan of the LHC experiments and the preaccelerators.
LHC experiments
ATLAS	A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
CMS	Compact Muon Solenoid
LHCb	LHC-beauty
ALICE	A Large Ion Collider Experiment
TOTEM	Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation
LHCf	LHC-forward
MoEDAL	Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC
FASER	ForwArd Search ExpeRiment
SND	Scattering and Neutrino Detector
LHC preaccelerators
p and Pb	Linear accelerators for protons (Linac 4) and lead (Linac 3)
(not marked)	Proton Synchrotron Booster
PS	Proton Synchrotron
SPS	Super Proton Synchrotron

The TOTEM experiment (TOTal Elastic and diffractive cross section Measurement) is one of the eight detector experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The other seven are: ATLAS, ALICE, CMS, LHCb, LHCf, MoEDAL and FASER. It shares an interaction point with CMS. The detector aims at measurement of total cross section, elastic scattering, and diffractive processes. The primary instrument of the detector is referred to as a Roman pot.

See also

• CERN: European Organization for Nuclear Research
• Large Hadron Collider

Further reading

• G. Anelli et al. (TOTEM Collaboration) (2008). "The TOTEM Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider". Journal of Instrumentation. 3 (8): S08007. Bibcode:2008JInst...3S8007T. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08007. (Full design documentation)

External links

• TOTEM Public Webpage
• TOTEM section on US/LHC Website