English
Related papers

Related papers: Proton-nucleus cross section at high energies

200 papers

We construct a formula for proton-nucleus total reaction cross section as a function of the mass and neutron excess of the target nucleus and the proton incident energy. We deduce the dependence of the cross section on the mass number and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kei Iida , Akihisa Kohama , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

We predict $\sigma_{p{-}\rm air}^{\rm prod}$, the proton--air inelastic production cross section, at $pp$ center-of-mass energies $2\le\sqrt s \le 100000$ TeV, using high energy predictions from a saturated Froissart bound parameterization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. M. Block

Inclusive production of $J/\psi$ mesons, especially at forward rapidities, is an important probe of small-x gluons in protons and nuclei. In this paper we re-evaluate the production cross sections in the Color Glass Condensate framework,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-10 B. Ducloué , T. Lappi , H. Mäntysaari

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 proton-air and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 M. M. Block , F. Halzen , T. Stanev

Hadronic cross sections at ultra-high energy have a significant impact on the development of extensive air shower cascades. Therefore the interpretation of air shower data depends critically on hadronic interaction models that extrapolate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-08 Ralf Ulrich , Ralph Engel , Steffen Müller , Fabian Schüssler , Michael Unger

I present a new determination of the total cross section for proton-proton collisions from the recent Akeno results on absorption of the cosmic ray protons in the p-Air collisions. Extrapolation to the SSC energy suggests $\sigma_{tot}(p-p)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 N. N. Nikolaev

We develop a new approach to production of the spectator nucleons in the heavy ion collisions. The energy transfer to the spectator system is calculated using the Monte Carlo based on the updated version of our generator of configurations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-29 M. Alvioli , M. Strikman

Experiments using intermediate- to high-energy radioactive nuclear beams present numerous findings. Extracting important properties of physical observables relies on a firm theoretical analysis. Though Glauber theory is believed to work…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 W. Horiuchi , Y. Suzuki , R. B. Wiringa

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 YBJ Collaboration

Various differential cross sections of high-energy photon splitting in the electric fields of heavy atoms are calculated exactly in the parameter \al. The consideration is based on the quasiclassical approach applicable for small angles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Lee , A. I. Milstein , V. M. Strakhovenko

Theoretical antiproton and proton cross sections for ionization and excitation of hydrogen molecules as well as energy spectra of the ionized electrons were calculated in the impact-energy range from 8 to 4000 keV. The cross sections were…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Armin Lühr , Alejandro Saenz

Calculation of elastic p8Li- and p9Li-scattering differential cross sections, performed at two energies 0.07 and 0.7 GeV/nucleon within Glauber multiple diffraction scattering, are presented and discussed. Three-body wave functions:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-01-03 E. T. Ibraeva , M. A. Zhusupov , O. Imambekov

We calculate the survival probability of $J/\Psi$ particles in various colliding systems using a Glauber model. An analysis of recent data has reported a $J/\Psi$-nucleon breakup cross section of 6.2$\pm$0.7 mb derived from an exponential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. Bennett , J. L. Nagle

Total inclusive cross sections for neutral and charged pion production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus reactions have been calculated and compared to experiment. Nucleon-nucleon theoretical cross sections have been scaled up to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 John W. Norbury , Lawrence W. Townsend

The proton-proton momentum correlation function from different rapidity regions are systematically investigated for the Au + Au collisions at different impact parameters and different energies from 400$A$ MeV to 1500$A$ MeV in the framework…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-26 Ting-Ting Wang , Yu-Gang Ma , Chun-Jian Zhang , Zheng-Qiao Zhang

Experimental conclusions from air shower observations on cosmic-ray photons above 10^19 eV are based on the comparison to detailed shower simulations. For the calculations, the photonuclear cross-section needs to be extrapolated over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Risse , P. Homola , R. Engel , D. Gora , D. Heck , J. Pekala , B. Wilczynska , H. Wilczynski

We propose a generic empirical formula for total inelastic cross-sections for various target nuclei scattered by a proton at different energies, which is applicable over a wide range of energy from $15 ~MeV$ to $1~ TeV$. The proposed model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Hemant Kumar , Tanmay Maji , Deepa Gupta , Ashavani Kumar

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 review the theoretical and experimental progress in the Glauber model of multiple nucleon and/or parton scatterings, after the last 10--15 years of operation with proton and nuclear beams at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 David d'Enterria , Constantin Loizides

The total neutron-Nucleus cross section has been calculated within an approach which takes into account nucleon-nucleon correlations, Glauber multiple scattering and inelastic shadowing corrections. Nuclear targets ranging from 4He to 208Pb…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-25 M. Alvioli , C. Ciofi degli Atti , I. Marchino , H. Morita , V. Palli