Eur. Phys. J. C (2010) 65: 637-647
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1202-0

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

LHC as π p and π π collider

Institute for High Energy Physics, 142 281, Protvino, Russia

^* e-mail: roman.rioutine@cern.ch

Received: 20 July 2009
Revised: 13 October 2009
Published online: 1 December 2009

Abstract

We propose an experiment at the LHC with leading neutron production. The latter can be used to extract from it the total π ⁺ p cross-sections. With two leading neutrons we can get access to the total π ⁺ π ⁺ cross-sections. In this note we give some estimates and discuss related problems and prospects.