LHC experiments | |
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ATLAS | A Toroidal LHC Apparatus |
CMS | Compact Muon Solenoid |
LHCb | LHC-beauty |
ALICE | A Large Ion Collider Experiment |
TOTEM | Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation |
LHCf | LHC-forward |
MoEDAL | Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC |
FASER | ForwArd Search ExpeRiment |
SND | Scattering and Neutrino Detector |
LHC preaccelerators | |
p and Pb | Linear accelerators for protons (Linac 4) and lead (Linac 3) |
(not marked) | Proton Synchrotron Booster |
PS | Proton Synchrotron |
SPS | Super Proton Synchrotron |
The LHCf (Large Hadron Collider forward) is a special-purpose Large Hadron Collider experiment for astroparticle (cosmic ray) physics, and one of nine detectors in the LHC accelerator at CERN. LHCf is designed to study the particles generated in the forward region of collisions, those almost directly in line with the colliding proton beams.[1]