| Title: | Proton-air cross section measurement with the ARGO-YBJ cosmic ray experiment |
Authors: | Aielli, G.
Bacci, Cesare
Bartoli, B.
Bernardini, P.
Bi, X. J.
Bleve, C.
Branchini, Paolo
Budano, A.
Bussino, Severino
Calabrese Melcarne, A. K.
Camarri, P.
Cao, Z.
Cappa, A.
Cardarelli, R.
Catalanotti, S.
Cattaneo, C.
Celio, Paola
Chen, S. Z.
Chen, Y.
Cheng, N.
Creti, P.
Cui, S. W.
Dai, B. Z.
D'Ali Staiti, G.
Danzengluobu
Dattoli, M.
De Mitri, I.
D'Ettorre Piazzoli, B.
De Vincenzi, Mario
Di Girolamo, T.
Ding, X. H.
Di Sciascio, G.
Feng, C. F.
Feng, Zhaoyang
Feng, Zhenyong
Galeazzi, Fulvio
Galeotti, P.
Gargana, Riccardo
Gou, Q. B.
Guo, Y. Q.
He, H. H.
Hu, Haibing
Hu, Hongbo
Huang, Q.
Iacovacci, M.
Iuppa, R.
James, Irina
Jia, H. Y.
Labaciren
Li, H. J.
Li, J. Y.
Li, X. X.
Liberti, B.
Liguori, G.
Liu, C.
Liu, C. Q.
Liu, M. Y.
Liu, J.
Lu, H.
Ma, X. H.
Mancarella, G.
Mari, Stefano Maria
Marsella, G.
Martello, D.
Mastroianni, Stefano
Meng, X. R.
Montini, Paolo
Ning, C. C.
Pagliaro, A.
Panareo, M.
Perrone, L.
Pistilli, Pio
Qu, X. B.
Rossi, E.
Ruggieri, Federico
Saggese, L.
Salvini, P.
Santonico, R.
Shen, P. R.
Sheng, X. D.
Shi, F.
Stanescu, Cristian
Surdo, A.
Tan, Y. H.
Vallania, P.
Vernetto, S.
Vigorito, C.
Wang, B.
Wang, H.
Wu, C. Y.
Wu, H. R.
Xu, B.
Xue, L.
Yan, Y. X.
Yang, Q. Y.
Yang, X. C.
Yuan, A. F.
Zha, M.
Zhang, H. M.
Zhang, JiLong
Zhang, JianLi
Zhang, L.
Zhang, P.
Zhang, X. Y.
Zhang, Y.
Zhaxisangzhu
Zhou, X. X.
Zhu, F. R.
Zhu, Q. Q.
Zizzi, G. |
Keywords: | HADRONIC-INTERACTIONS
p-p CROSS SECTION
AIR SHOWER EXPERIMENTS
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
COSMIC RAYS |
Issue Date: | 16-Nov-2009 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Abstract: | 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 primary cosmic ray 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. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2307/366 |
ISSN: | 1550-7998 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.092004 |
| Appears in Collections: | A - Articolo su rivista
X_Dipartimento di Fisica 'Edoardo Amaldi'
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