The LHCf experiment at the LHC accelerator

L. Bonechi, O. Adriani, M. Bongi, G. Castellini, R. D'Alessandro, A. Faus, M. Haguenauer, Y. Itow, K. Kasahara, T. Mase, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, H. Matsumoto, H. Menjo, Y. Muraki, P. Papini, T. Sako, T. Tamura, K. Tanaka, S. ToriiA. Tricomi, W. C. Turner, J. Velasco, H. Watanabe, K. Yoshida

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抄録

The claimed discovery of atmospheric shower induced by cosmic-ray with energy beyond the GZK cutoff by the AGASA experiment in 1994-1995, although not confirmed by other important experiments like Fly's Eye and Hi-Res, together with the poor knowledge of the composition of cosmic rays around and beyond the Knee region, have highlighted the necessity of new experiments that should increase our present knowledge of HECR and UHECR. For this reason big efforts have been addressed to the development of new experiments, like Auger, TA and EUSO, for a systematic study of the UHE atmospheric showers with increased capabilities with respect to the previous experiments. Moreover complementary experiments should allow a precise calibration of the methods used for the reconstruction of cosmic-ray showers in atmosphere. Their aim is the measurement of quantities that are used in these procedures and that are not yet precisely known. Under this perspective the LHCf experiment is a compact experiment which has been proposed for the study of neutral pion and gamma production at high energy in proton-proton interaction in the very forward region of the LHC accelerator. It will help calibrating the algorithms that are used to reconstruct the atmospheric shower events for energy beyond the Knee. The LHCf apparatus and the results of the first beam test, held in 2004, are shortly discussed in this work.

本文言語English
ホスト出版物のタイトルCALORIMETRY IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
ホスト出版物のサブタイトルXII International Conference
ページ266-273
ページ数8
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2006
外部発表はい
イベントCALORIMETRY IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS: XII International Conference - Chicago, IL, United States
継続期間: 2006 6月 52006 6月 9

出版物シリーズ

名前AIP Conference Proceedings
867
ISSN(印刷版)0094-243X
ISSN(電子版)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceCALORIMETRY IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS: XII International Conference
国/地域United States
CityChicago, IL
Period06/6/506/6/9

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 物理学および天文学(全般)

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