TY - JOUR
T1 - Astroparticle physics at LHC
T2 - The LHCf experiment ready for data taking
AU - Bongi, M.
AU - Adriani, O.
AU - Bonechi, L.
AU - Castellini, G.
AU - D'Alessandro, R.
AU - Faus, D. A.
AU - Fukui, K.
AU - Grandi, M.
AU - Haguenauer, M.
AU - Itow, Y.
AU - Kasahara, K.
AU - Macina, D.
AU - Mase, T.
AU - Masuda, K.
AU - Matsubara, Y.
AU - Menjo, H.
AU - Mizuishi, M.
AU - Muraki, Y.
AU - Papini, P.
AU - Perrot, A. L.
AU - Ricciarini, S.
AU - Sako, T.
AU - Shimizu, Y.
AU - Taki, K.
AU - Tamura, T.
AU - Torii, S.
AU - Tricomi, A.
AU - Turner, W. C.
AU - Velasco, J.
AU - Viciani, A.
AU - Yoshida, K.
PY - 2010/1/11
Y1 - 2010/1/11
N2 - 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 1017 eV), it will span an energy range up to the region between the "knee" and the GZK cut-off of the cosmic-ray spectrum.
AB - 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 1017 eV), it will span an energy range up to the region between the "knee" and the GZK cut-off of the cosmic-ray spectrum.
KW - High-energy cosmic rays
KW - LHC forward physics
KW - Sampling calorimeters
KW - Scintillators and scintillating fibers
KW - Silicon microstrip tracking detectors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.039
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.039
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:73649137878
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 612
SP - 451
EP - 454
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 3
ER -