LHCf experiment: forward physics at LHC for cosmic rays study

M. Del Prete; O. Adriani; E. Berti; L. Bonechi; M. Bongi; G. Castellini; R. D’Alessandro; M. Haguenauer; Y. Itow; K. Kasahara; K. Kawade; Y. Makino; K. Masuda; E. Matsubayashi; H. Menjo; G. Mitsuka; Y. Muraki; Y. Okuno; P. Papini; A.-L. Perrot; S. Ricciarini; T. Sako; N. Sakurai; Y. Sugiura; T. Suzuki; T. Tamura; A. Tiberio; S. Torii; A. Tricomi; W.C. Turner; Q.D. Zhou

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201612604014

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EPJ Web of Conferences 126, 04014 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612604014

LHCf experiment: forward physics at LHC for cosmic rays study

M. Del Prete¹^,2^a, O. Adriani¹^,2, E. Berti¹^,2, L. Bonechi¹^,2, M. Bongi¹^,2, G. Castellini³, R. D’Alessandro¹^,2, M. Haguenauer⁴, Y. Itow⁵^,6, K. Kasahara⁷, K. Kawade⁵, Y. Makino⁵, K. Masuda⁵, E. Matsubayashi⁵, H. Menjo⁸, G. Mitsuka²^,5, Y. Muraki⁵, Y. Okuno⁵^,9, P. Papini¹, A.-L. Perrot¹⁰, S. Ricciarini¹^,2, T. Sako⁵, N. Sakurai⁶, Y. Sugiura⁵, T. Suzuki⁷, T. Tamura¹¹, A. Tiberio¹^,2, S. Torii⁶, A. Tricomi¹²^,13, W.C. Turner¹⁴ and Q.D. Zhou⁵

¹ INFN section of Florence, Italy
² University of Florence, Italy
³ IFAC-CNR, Italy
⁴ Ecole-Polytechnique, France
⁵ Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Japan
⁶ Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Japan
⁷ RISE, Waseda University, Japan
⁸ Graduate school of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
⁹ Nagasaki Institute Applied Science, Japan
¹⁰ CERN, Switzerland
¹¹ Kanagawa University, Japan
¹² INFN Section of Catania, Italy
¹³ University of Catania, Italy
¹⁴ LBNL, Berkeley, USA

^a e-mail: marina.delprete@fi.infn.it

Published online: 4 November 2016

Abstract

The LHCf experiment, optimized for the study of forward physics at LHC, completes its main physics program in this year 2015, with the proton-proton collisions at the energy of 13 TeV. LHCf gives important results on the study of neutral particles at extreme pseudo-rapidity, both for proton-proton and for proton-ion interactions. These results are an important reference for tuning the models of the hadronic interaction currently used for the simulation of the atmospheric showers induced by very high energy cosmic rays. The results of this analysis and the future perspective are presented in this paper.

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