Performance of hadronic shower measurement with LHCf and ATLAS ZDC detectors

Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays are measured by using air showers that generate many particles through hadronic interactions. Therefore understanding hadronic interactions is essential, especially for particle production in the very forward region, which contribute to the shower development. The collab...

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Main Author: Kobayashi Haruka
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Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2025-01-01
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description Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays are measured by using air showers that generate many particles through hadronic interactions. Therefore understanding hadronic interactions is essential, especially for particle production in the very forward region, which contribute to the shower development. The collaboration of LHCf and ATLAS ZDC located behind the LHCf detector realize the precise measurement of neutrons in the very forward region of ATLAS collision point for studies of one pion exchange and diffractive events with pp collision at √s = 13.6 TeV. Herein, we present the performance of the LHCf + ATLAS ZDC joint operation studied using a beam test with 350 GeV proton beams at the SPS in 2021. We confirmed the good energy resolution of 22% compared to the LHCf stand alone measurement of 46%. In addition, we measured the uniformty of the reconstructed energy and the energy resolution. We confirmed that the uniformty of the reconstructed energy was less than 4%, and the energy resolution was uniform except for the edge region.
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spelling doaj-art-166f4f212f0643a28c9ece21ae271a172025-08-20T03:07:02ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2025-01-013200004310.1051/epjconf/202532000043epjconf_calor2024_00043Performance of hadronic shower measurement with LHCf and ATLAS ZDC detectorsKobayashi Haruka0Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya UniversityUltrahigh-energy cosmic rays are measured by using air showers that generate many particles through hadronic interactions. Therefore understanding hadronic interactions is essential, especially for particle production in the very forward region, which contribute to the shower development. The collaboration of LHCf and ATLAS ZDC located behind the LHCf detector realize the precise measurement of neutrons in the very forward region of ATLAS collision point for studies of one pion exchange and diffractive events with pp collision at √s = 13.6 TeV. Herein, we present the performance of the LHCf + ATLAS ZDC joint operation studied using a beam test with 350 GeV proton beams at the SPS in 2021. We confirmed the good energy resolution of 22% compared to the LHCf stand alone measurement of 46%. In addition, we measured the uniformty of the reconstructed energy and the energy resolution. We confirmed that the uniformty of the reconstructed energy was less than 4%, and the energy resolution was uniform except for the edge region.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2025/05/epjconf_calor2024_00043.pdf
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Performance of hadronic shower measurement with LHCf and ATLAS ZDC detectors
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title Performance of hadronic shower measurement with LHCf and ATLAS ZDC detectors
title_full Performance of hadronic shower measurement with LHCf and ATLAS ZDC detectors
title_fullStr Performance of hadronic shower measurement with LHCf and ATLAS ZDC detectors
title_full_unstemmed Performance of hadronic shower measurement with LHCf and ATLAS ZDC detectors
title_short Performance of hadronic shower measurement with LHCf and ATLAS ZDC detectors
title_sort performance of hadronic shower measurement with lhcf and atlas zdc detectors
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