DIFFRACTIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE ELASTICITY AND TO THE NUCLEONIC FLUX IN THE ATMOSPHERE

Authors
BELLANDI J GODOI AL COVOLAN RJM MONTANHA J
Citation
J. Bellandi et al., DIFFRACTIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE ELASTICITY AND TO THE NUCLEONIC FLUX IN THE ATMOSPHERE, Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics, 23(1), 1997, pp. 125-134
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields","Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09543899
Volume
23
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
125 - 134
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-3899(1997)23:1<125:DCTTEA>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
We perform an analysis of the nucleonic and hadronic fluxes in the atm osphere by considering two components for the nucleon scattering, name ly non-diffractive and diffractive interactions. It is shown that, alb eit small, the diffractive component is really necessary to get good a greement with data An analysis of the proton-proton total cross sectio n and proton-air inelastic cross section, both extracted from cosmic-r ay data, is also presented.