Proton-proton Cross Section at sqrt(s) \sim 30 TeV
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- 20 February 1998
Abstract
There are both theoretical and experimental uncertainties in using data from cosmic-ray air showers to estimate hadronic cross sections above accelerator energies. We outline these problems and compare the physics used to extract \sigma_{pp}^{tot} from air shower data to the widely used parameterization of the proton-proton cross section of Donnachie and Landshoff and other contemporary models. We conclude that the published cosmic-ray cross section values do not strongly constrain \sigma_{pp}^{tot} fits from lower energy accelerator data.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1998-02-20, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review D, 58 (1), 014019.
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