Measurement of forward photon production cross-section in proton–proton collisions ats=13TeVwith the LHCf detector

O. Adriani, E. Berti, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, R. D'Alessandro, M. Haguenauer, Y. Itow, T. Iwata, K. Kasahara, Y. Makino, K. Masuda, E. Matsubayashi (+15 others)
2018 Physics Letters B  
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) = 13 TeV. The results from the analysis of 0.191 nb^-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,
more » ... OS-LHC shows the best agreement with the experimental data among the models.
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.12.050 fatcat:nxosyu5pyjdfjjy345s6p3ki7a