https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920805003
LHCb: Recent results related to cosmic ray interactions
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Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Am Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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https://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb/lhcb_page/collaboration/organization/list_of_authors/authors_default.pdf
* e-mail: hdembins@mpi-hd.mpg.de
Published online: 10 May 2019
The LHCb experiment is designed to study flavor physics of b and c quarks. The detector is optimized for the study of identified hadrons produced in the forward direction, which also makes LHCb very interesting for the understanding of cosmic-ray induced air showers. LHCb is analysing proton-proton, protonlead, and lead-lead collisions. As a unique feature, LHCb is also studying beam interactions with noble gases using its SMOG system. We present recent measurements of charmed mesons, which are used to obtain production cross-sections, to constrain the parton PDF, to test pomeron and multi-particle interactions, nuclear and collective effects. These mostly have an indirect impact on the modeling of hadronic interactions. Finally, we present a direct measurement of the anti-proton production in proton collisions with helium gas, which are important for the understanding of AMS-02 and PAMELA data.
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