Probing Geometry of Ion-Ion Collisions with Roman Pot Detectors

Abstract

A possible use of forward proton tagging detectors at the LHC in the context of heavy ion interactions is discussed. It is shown that signals registered in such detectors are sensitive to the geometry of the collision. A method of the impact parameter and the collision asymmetry reconstruction on the event-by-event basis is proposed and its performance is studied with Monte Carlo simulations.

Comments: 12 pages, 13 figures