Luminosity measurement in H1

The HERA luminosity was determined by measuring the flux of bremsstrahlung photons emitted at zero degree off electrons in the field of protons in the interaction region. After the HERA upgrade, the H1 Collaboration developed a new luminosity system which measured all the emitted photons in a bunch crossing. We describe the expression of this photon flux in the luminosity detector which is used in the simulation of the detector. The total energy method, based on the measurement of the bremsstrahlung photon energy flux in the calorimeter, is the standard method for the off-line luminosity measurement. In this study, we propose a new method to calculate the luminosity. This new method is based on the shape of the bremsstrahlung photon energy spectrum measured in the luminosity detector. The two methods are compared. A good agreement is observed. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.