The AFP Project
R. Staszewski (the ATLAS Collaboration)
TL;DR
The AFP project aims to enhance the ATLAS experiment's diffractive physics capabilities by installing new forward proton detectors, enabling detailed studies of various scattering processes and photon interactions.
Contribution
It introduces a new detector system for the ATLAS experiment to study diffractive and photon-induced processes at unprecedented precision.
Findings
Enhanced ability to tag forward protons at small angles
Potential to study Single Diffraction and Double Pomeron Exchange
Improved understanding of Central Exclusive Production
Abstract
AFP is a project to extend the diffractive physics programme of the ATLAS experiment by installing new detectors that will be able to tag forward protons scattered at very small angles. This will allow us to study Single Diffraction, Double Pomeron Exchange, Central Exclusive Production and photon-photon processes. This note presents the physics case for the AFP project and briefly describes the proposed detector system.
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