Proton-air cross section measurement with the ARGO-YBJ cosmic ray experiment

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Proton-air cross section measurement with the ARGO-YBJ cosmic ray experiment

I. De Mitri B. D'ettorre Piazzoli A. K. Calabrese Melcarne P. Pistilli H. M. Zhang G. Marsella X. X. Zhou Enrico Rossi Giovanni Mancarella L. Xue F. Galeazzi P. Galeotti C. Liu Jilong Zhang G. D'alí Staiti P. Vallania A. Surdo X. X. Li Q. Huang Giulio Aielli Hong-peng Lu X. H. Ma Longzhou Zhang Q. Q. Zhu C. Bacci G. Liguori Haibing Hu M. Y. Liu A. Pagliaro A. F. Yuan Zhenyong Feng Huaguang Wang C. Bleve Paolo Camarri Y. Zhang B. Bartoli X. D. Sheng Fudong Shi Q. Y. Yang N. Cheng X. R. Meng G. Zizzi D. Martello J. K. K. Liu C. Cattaneo J. Y. Li R. Gargana Danzengluobu Labaciren S. Mastroianni R. Santonico M. Iacovacci Chang-chun Ning B. S. Wang S. M. Mari X. Y. Zhang L. Perrone Zhaxisangzhu Zhaoyang Feng Y. Q. Guo Jianli Zhang P. Creti Zihuang Cao F. Ruggieri A. Cappa Carlo Vigorito Y. X. Yan Antonio Budano S. W. Cui C. Y. Wu Barbara Liberti X. B. Qu C. Q. Liu X. C. Yang P. Salvini X. H. Ding L. Saggese P. F. Zhang X. J. Bi Irina James Roberto Cardarelli P. Bernardini S. Z. Chen Y. H. Tan F. R. Zhu Paolo Montini R. Iuppa S. Catalanotti M. Panareo G. Di Sciascio T. Di Girolamo P. Celio H.h. He M. Dattoli M. De Vincenzi Y. B. Chen Hongbo Hu C. F. Feng H. Y. Jia H. J. Li S. Vernetto H. R. Wu P. R. Shen M. Zha B. Z. Dai Cristian Stanescu P. Branchini Bingwei Xu Severino Angelo Maria Bussino Q. B. Gou

subject

Nuclear and High Energy Physics Cosmic rays Proton-air cross section gamma astronomy Proton Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Hadron Cosmic ray Cross Section 01 natural sciences Cosmic Ray High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear physics 0103 physical sciences Multiplicity (chemistry)010306 general physics Nuclear Experiment Zenith Argo Physics 010308 nuclear & particles physics Attenuation Detector Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 3. Good health Hadronic Interaction High Energy Physics::Experiment Extensive Air Showers

description

The proton-air cross section in the energy range 1-100 TeV has been measured by the ARGO-YBJ cosmic ray experiment. The analysis is based on the flux attenuation for different atmospheric depths (i.e. zenith angles) and exploits the detector capabilities of selecting the shower development stage by means of hit multiplicity, density and lateral profile measurements at ground. The effects of shower fluctuations, the contribution of heavier primaries and the uncertainties of the hadronic interaction models, have been taken into account. The results have been used to estimate the total proton-proton cross section at center of mass energies between 70 and 500 GeV, where no accelerator data are currently available.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2009-04-27

10.1103/physrevd.80.092004 http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4198