Asymptotic behavior of the total cross section of p-p scattering and the Akeno cosmic ray data
Abstract
I present a new determination of the total cross section for proton-proton collisions from the recent Akeno results on the absorption of cosmic ray protons in p-air collisions. An extrapolation to SSC energies suggests σtot(p-p)~=160-170 mb. I also comment on a possible sensitivity of the p-air cross section determinations to assumptions on the inelasticity of nuclear collisions at high energy.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- September 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.48.R1904
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9304283
- Bibcode:
- 1993PhRvD..48.1904N
- Keywords:
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- 96.40.Pq;
- 12.40.Pp;
- 13.85.Lg;
- 13.85.Tp;
- Total cross sections;
- Cosmic-ray interactions;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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