Abstract
Based on an analysis of the extensive air shower data accumulated over the last ten years at Akeno Cosmic Ray Observatory, the value of the proton-air nuclei inelastic cross section () has been determined assuming the validity of quasi-Feynman scaling of particle production in the fragmentation region. The energy dependence of can be represented as 290(E/1 TeV mb in the energy interval – eV, where E is the incident proton energy. The total p-p cross section (), derived using the nuclear distribution function obtained from the shell model, increases with energy as 38.5+1.37 (√s /10 GeV) mb.
- Received 25 September 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.525
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