__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep ELASTIC SCATTERING IN D0 EXPERIMENT Carlos Avila Universidad de Los Andes Bogota, Colombia

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep FPD has opened the opportunity to study elastic scattering in the D0 experiment. We show in this talk: The analysis of elastic triggers taken during FPD commissioning. Prospects for increasing the t range that can be covered by FPD.

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep ELASTIC TRIGGER: 31 runs taken with detectors located at 9 from beam. ( = beam width): P1D=17.05mm, P2D=13.80mm A1U=12.57mm, A2U=9.11mm Total of 1.3 million triggered events DAQ used for FPD commissioning: Nim logic and camac readout. LM COUNTERS  2.5<  <4.4 VC COUNTERS  5.2<  <5.9

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep DAQ USED FOR FPD COMMISIONING Temporary DAQ used while FPD was integrating to D0 DAQ. Capability for reading out one Spectrometer.

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep HIT COORDINATE RECONSTRUCTION: We can reconstruct coordinates using the UV, UX, VX intersections of fiber segments. Comparison of coordinates obtained by different intersections is useful to determine the spatial resolution of the detector.

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep Events were rejected if there was a fiber plane with multiple hits. 2. We required 3 reconstructed fiber segments per detector. 3.Required that reconstructed coordinates from UX and UV planes agreed within 2 standard deviations (Fiducial cut). 4.Rejected events that were out of our MC expected elastic acceptance region (Acceptance cut). CUT# EVENTS AFTER CUT No cut1,308,734 Fiber multip. cut29,285 Segments cut26,428 Fiducial cut21,287 Acceptance cut17,724 SELECTION OF ELASTIC EVENT CANDIDATES:

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep FIBER MULTIPLICITY CUTS Majority of events recorded have multiple hits in our detectors. Particle showers seem to be produced in the separators located between P1 and P2.

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep EVENTS THAT SURVIVED ALL CUTS D0 Preliminary

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep SPATIAL RESOLUTION Determined from the difference between coordinates obtained from UV segment and coordinates obtained from UX segment. D0 Preliminary

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep  ACCEPTANCE CORRECTIONS  covered by the PD spectrometer. We also determine the error in acceptance due to error in detector position. D0 Preliminary

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep t distribution (uncorrected) D0 Preliminary

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep |t| slices in each detector P1D P2D

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep |t| range covered with the data shown here

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep Can the FPD do studies of elastic events in the forward region? FPD could give some light about the discrepancy between E710/E811 and CDF measurements of total cross section:

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep MC for elastic events can tell the FPD running conditions to reach lower |t| values: In the forward region we simulate: Add Tevatron lattice and include beam emittance in the simulation.

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep A possible measurement of the Total cross section? With beam injection lattice:

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep Uncertainty on the measurement of  _TOT due to extrapolation to t=0 (50000 elastic events): Position|t|_rangeSlope  _T(mb) 88 0.05<|t|< ± 9 0.12<|t|< ±  0.16<|t|< ±  0.20<|t|< ± This error is only due to error in extrapolation. Still need to include error in the measurement of N inelastic

__________________________________ C. Avila, small x workshop, Sep CONCLUSIONS Proton Antiproton elastic events have been very useful to test the performance of FPD detector. Analysis of elastic events recorded with the FPD in the range 0.9<|t|<1.7, during commissioning, is in a mature stage. It has proven difficult because we have fiber information from only one spectrometer. After Dec elastic triggers will have fiber information from full FPD system. FPD will be able to reach up to a |t| value of 4.5. FPD detector rates have a large contribution from particle showers most likely produced in the electrostatic separators. Working with beam divisions on this issue. FPD has a chance to make a new measurement of the Total cross section but requires special low luminosity store running with beam injection lattice. Only need a few hours of running to collect enough statistics.