LHCf experiment: forward physics at LHC for cosmic rays study

• Main Authors: Del Prete M., Adriani O., Berti E., Bonechi L., Bongi M., Castellini G., D’Alessandro R., Haguenauer M., Itow Y., Kasahara K., Kawade K., Makino Y., Masuda K., Matsubayashi E., Menjo H., Mitsuka G., Muraki Y., Okuno Y., Papini P., Perrot A.-L., Ricciarini S., Sako T., Sakurai N., Sugiura Y., Suzuki T., Tamura T., Tiberio A., Torii S., Tricomi A., Turner W.C., Zhou Q.D.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2016-01-01
• Series: EPJ Web of Conferences
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612604014
• ISSN: 2100-014X

The LHCf experiment, optimized for the study of forward physics at LHC, completes its main physics program in this year 2015, with the proton-proton collisions at the energy of 13 TeV. LHCf gives important results on the study of neutral particles at extreme pseudo-rapidity, both for proton-proton and for proton-ion interactions. These results are an important reference for tuning the models of the hadronic interaction currently used for the simulation of the atmospheric showers induced by very high energy cosmic rays. The results of this analysis and the future perspective are presented in this paper.