https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612604014
LHCf experiment: forward physics at LHC for cosmic rays study
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
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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