Title of article
Astroparticle physics at LHC: The LHCf experiment ready for data taking
Author/Authors
Bongi، نويسنده , , M. and Adriani، نويسنده , , O. and Bonechi، نويسنده , , L. and Castellini، نويسنده , , G. and D’Alessandro، نويسنده , , R. and Faus، نويسنده , , D.A. and Fukui، نويسنده , , K. and Grandi، نويسنده , , M. and Haguenauer، نويسنده , , M. and Itow، نويسنده , , Y. and Kasahara، نويسنده , , K. and Macina، نويسنده , , D. and Mase، نويسنده , , T. and Masuda، نويسنده , , K. and Matsubara، نويسنده , , Y. and Menjo، نويسنده , , H. and Mizuishi، نويسنده , , M. and Muraki، نويسنده , , Y. and Papini، نويسنده , , P. and Perrot، نويسنده , , A.L. and Ricciarini، نويسنده , , S. and Sako، نويسنده , , T. and Shimizu، نويسنده , , Y. and Taki، نويسنده , , K. and Tamura، نويسنده , , T. and Torii، نويسنده , , S. and Tricomi، نويسنده , , A. and Turner، نويسنده , , W.C. and Velasco، نويسنده , , J. and Viciani، نويسنده , , A. and Yoshida، نويسنده , , K.، نويسنده ,
Pages
4
From page
451
To page
454
Abstract
LHCf is a high-energy physics experiment designed to study the forward production of neutral particles in proton–proton collisions at the LHC. The set-up consists of two small calorimetric systems symmetrically placed 140 m away on both the sides of the ATLAS interaction point. Results from the experiment will provide valuable information to the calibration of the nuclear interaction models used in the Monte Carlo codes for air-shower simulations, which are of great importance for present and future ground-based cosmic-ray experiments. In particular, since LHCf will start taking data in the first phase of operation of the LHC (during the beam commissioning phase at 5 + 5 TeV energy) and will complete its data taking at the beginning of the 7 + 7 TeV runs (laboratory equivalent collision energy 10 17 eV ), it will span an energy range up to the region between the “knee” and the GZK cut-off of the cosmic-ray spectrum.
Keywords
Silicon microstrip tracking detectors , High-energy cosmic rays , LHC forward physics , Sampling calorimeters , Scintillators and scintillating fibers
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
2023386
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