Measurement of forward photon production cross-section in proton-proton collisions at √{ s } = 13TeV with the LHCf detector
/ Authors
O. Adriani, E. Berti, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, R. D’Alessandro, M. Haguenauer, Y. Itow, T. Iwata, K. Kasahara, Y. Makino
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K. Masuda, E. Matsubayashi, H. Menjo, Y. Muraki, P. Papini, S. Ricciarini, T. Sako, N. Sakurai, M. Shinoda, Toshiharu Suzuki, T. Tamura, A. Tiberio, S. Torii, A. Tricomi, W. Turner, M. Ueno, Q. Zhou
/ Abstract
In this paper, we report the production cross-section of forward photons in the pseudorapidity regions of η>10.94 and 8.99>η>8.81 , measured by the LHCf experiment with proton–proton collisions at s=13TeV . The results from the analysis of 0.191nb−1 of data obtained in June 2015 are compared to the predictions of several hadronic interaction models that are used in air-shower simulations for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Although none of the models agree perfectly with the data, EPOS-LHC shows the best agreement with the experimental data among the models.
Journal: Physics Letters B