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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 96, 2015
Dark Matter, Hadron Physics and Fusion Physics
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| Article Number | 01031 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159601031 | |
| Published online | 02 June 2015 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159601031
Recent results from the LHCf experiment
1 University of Florence, Italy
2 INFN Section of Florence, Italy
3 IFAC-CNR, Italy
4 Ecole-Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
5 Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
6 Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
7 RISE, Waseda University, Japan
8 Graduate school of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
9 CERN, Switzerland
10 JAXA, Japan
11 Kanagawa University, Japan
12 University of Catania, Italy
13 INFN Section of Catania, Italy
14 LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
a e-mail: alessio.tiberio@fi.infn.it
Published online: 2 June 2015
The LHC-forward (LHCf) experiment, situated at the LHC accelerator, has measured neutral particles production in a very forward region (pseudo-rapidity > 8.4) in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions. The main purpose of the LHCf experiment is to test hadronic interaction models used in cosmic rays experiments to imulate cosmic rays induced air-showers in Earth’s atmosphere.
The experiment is composed of two independent detectors located at 140m from the ATLAS interaction point (IP1) on opposite sides ; each detector is composed of two sampling calorimeters.
Latest physics results from p-p and p-Pb collisions (at √s = 7 TeV and 5.02 TeV respectively) will be discussed in this paper ; in particular, the inclusive energy spectra of neutrons in p-p collisions and the transverse momentum spectra of neutral pions for different pseudo-rapidity ranges in p-Pb collisions will be shown.
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