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The extent to which information about fluctuations in hadron-nucleon total cross sections in the frozen approximation can be extracted from very high energy hadron-nucleus total cross section measurements for a range of heavy nuclei is…

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We present predictions of inclusive antiproton and antineutron production cross sections in proton-proton collisions relevant to primary and secondary antiproton production in cosmic ray interactions with interstellar matter. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Mariaelena Boglione , Mattia di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Emanuele R. Nocera , Jennifer Rittenhouse West , Andrea Signori

At $\sqrt s = 57\pm 7$ TeV, the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) collaboration has recently measured the proton-air inelastic production cross section $\sigma_{\rm p-air}$. Assuming a helium contamination of 25%, they subtracted 30 mb from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 M. M. Block

We present the first results of a comprehensive microscopic approach to describe nucleus-nucleus elastic collisions by means of an optical potential derived at first order in multiple-scattering theory and computed by folding the projectile…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

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,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Perez-Peraza , J. Velasco , A. Gallegos-Cruz , M. Alvarez-Madrigal , A. Faus-Golfe , A. Sanchez-Hertz

We report new calculations of the cross sections for deeply inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering at neutrino energies between $10^{9}\ev$ and $10^{21}\ev$. We compare with results in the literature and assess the reliability of our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-05 Raj Gandhi , Chris Quigg , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic

Using an eikonal analysis, we simultaneously fit a QCD-inspired parameterization of all accelerator data on forward proton-proton and antiproton-proton scattering amplitudes, together with cosmic ray data (using Glauber theory), to predict…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Block , F. Halzen

Microscopic optical model potential results for reaction cross sections of proton elastic scattering are presented. The applications cover the 10-1000 MeV energy range and consider both stable and unstable nuclei. The study is based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. F. Arellano , M. Girod

Cosmic ray data may allow the determination of the proton-air cross section at ultra-high energy. For example, the distribution of the first interaction point in air showers reflects the particle production cross section. As it is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-11 Ralf Ulrich , Johannes Bluemer , Ralph Engel , Fabian Schuessler , Michael Unger

The Glauber model is extensively applied to heavy ion collision for describing a number of interaction processes over a wide range of energies from near the Coulomb barrier to higher energies. The model gives the nucleus-nucleus interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Shukla

We calculate nucleon-nucleon cross sections in the nuclear medium with unequal densities of protons and neutrons. We use the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach together with realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials. We examine the effect of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Sammarruca , P. Krastev

Proton-proton total cross sections are measured with present day high energy colliders up to 2 TeV in the centre-of-mass of the system (10^{15}) eV in the laboratory). Several parameterizations, very succesful at low energies, can then be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Velasco , J. Perez-Peraza , A. Gallegos-Cruz , M. Alvarez-Madrigal , A. Faus-Golfe , A. Sanchez-Hertz

The differential cross sections of the p^{10}B scattering at energies of 197, 600 and 1000 MeV have been calculated within the framework of the Glauber theory. The operator of multiple scattering takes into account the contributions of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Albert Dzhazairov-Kahramanov , Elena Ibraeva , Pavel Krassovitskiy

The straightforward calculations of the reaction and interaction cross sections of the nuclear scattering are carried out in Glauber approach using the generating function method. It allows for the resummation of all orders of Glauber…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-03 Yu. M. Shabelski , A. G. Shuvaev

We calculate the total and differential quasielastic cross sections for neutrino and antineutrino scattering on nucleons using up to date fits to the nucleon elastic electromagnetic form factors $G_E^p$, $G_E^n$, $G_M^p$, $G_M^n$, and $F_A$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-06-02 A. Bodek , H. Budd , J. Arrington

The fact that quark-quark, quark-gluon and gluon-gluon interactions are different sources of particle production in proton-proton collision at high energy is investigated in this work. The variation of the multiplicity and pseudo-rapidity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 F. H. Sawy , M. T. Ghoneim , M. T. Hussein

Total cross sections for neutron scattering from nuclei, with energies ranging from 10 to 600 MeV and from many nuclei spanning the mass range 6Li to 238U, have been analyzed using a simple, three-parameter, functional form. The calculated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Pradip Deb , Ken Amos , Steven Karataglidis

Reaction cross sections of carbon isotopes for proton scattering are calculated in large energy region. Density distributions of carbon isotopes are obtained from relativistic mean field results. Calculations are based on two procedures:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Kaori Kaki

Reaction cross-sections are calculated using the Coulomb modified Glauber model for deformed target nuclei. The deformed nuclear matter density of the target is expanded into multipoles of order k = 0,2,4.The reaction cross-sections between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-13 M. Y. M. Hassan , M. Y. H. Farag , A. Y. Abul-Magd , T. E. I. Nassar

We consider high-energy proton-heavy nucleus scattering within the framework of the Glauber-Gribov approximation and taking into account cross section fluctuations. Fixing parameters of the model for cross section fluctuations by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Guzey , M. Strikman