Related papers: Total Cross Sections
A historical summary is made on the measurements concerning the rising total hadron-hadron cross sections at high energies. The first part of this paper concerns the total cross section measurements performed at the Brookhaven, Serpukhov…
This review describes the development of the physics of hadronic cross sections up to recent LHC results and cosmic ray experiments. We present here a comprehensive review - written with a historical perspective - about total cross-sections…
The current large uncertainty on the extrapolation of the proton-proton total cross section at the LHC energy will be resolved by the precise measurement by the TOTEM experiment. Its accurate studies on the basic properties of proton-proton…
We discuss the need to compare total cross-section measurements at LHC and HERA with each other and with available models in order to obtain a more precise prediction of the total hadronic cross-section at the future Linear Collider, thus…
This article discusses some basic aspects of cross section measurements at the future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
A unified approach to total cross-sections, based on the QCD contribution to the rise with energy, is presented for the processes $pp$, $p{\bar p}$, $\gamma p, \gamma \gamma, e^+e^- \to hadrons$. For proton processes, a discussion of the…
Present estimations of proton-proton total cross section at very high energies are obtained from cosmic rays (>10^17 eV) by means of some approximations and the knowledge of the measured proton-air cross section at these energies. Besides,…
The importance of cosmic-ray experimental measurements of proton-proton total cross sections to understand the underlying fundamental dynamics is discussed. It is shown that early discovered global structure of proton-proton total cross…
We calculate total hadron-hadron cross sections at high energies using the Low-Nussinov two-gluon model of the Pomeron. The gluon exchange is represented by a phenomenological potential including screened color-Coulomb, screened confining,…
The uncertainties of the Standard Model prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon are currently completely dominated by hadronic contributions. The largest contribution is due to the hadronic vacuum polarization. Hadronic…
High energy hadronic total cross-section data are found to agree with the predictions of a QCD-string picture.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has successfully completed data taking at center of mass (COM) energy 7 TeV in 2011 and very recently for 8 TeV. Measurement of cross sections predicted by the standard model were the main tasks in…
Measurements of the total cross section of e+e- -> hadrons are presented in two different ranges of centre-of-mass energy. The measurements are made using the CLEO III and CLEO-c detectors at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. The absolute…
Interaction cross section measurements in fixed-target scattering experiments are typically performed by measuring the attenuation of a beam of particles that is incident upon a target slab of material. A fully active sampling calorimeter,…
The first measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in the fully hadronic channel at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt s = 7$ TeV is presented. The measurement has been performed using an integrated luminosity of 1.09…
The cross sections for the charged current processes ${e^{-}p}\rightarrow{\nu_e+hadrons}$ and, for the first time, ${e^{+}p}\rightarrow{\overline{\nu}_e+hadrons}$ are measured at HERA for transverse momenta larger than 25 GeV.
The differential cross-section for pair production of top quarks with high transverse momentum is measured in 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The measurement is performed for $t\bar{t}$ events…
Accurate measurements of particles masses, couplings and widths are possible by measuring production cross sections near threshold. We discuss the prospects for performing such measurements at a high luminosity muon collider.
Recent analysis of the cosmic ray data together with earlier experimental measurements at ISR and SPS provides us a sound footing to discuss the behavior of total cross section at asymptotic energies. We will study the growth of total cross…
The rise of the total, elastic and inelastic hadronic cross sections at high energies is investigated by means of an analytical parametrization, with the exponent of the leading logarithm contribution as a free fit parameter. Using…