Fluctuations of cross-sections seen in cosmic ray data?

Feb, 1994
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 50 (1994) 2318-2320
Report number:
  • WSP-1-1994

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Abstract: (APS)
We argue that the unexpected nonexponential behavior of some cosmic ray data is just a manifestation of cross section fluctuations discussed recently in the literature and observed in nuclear collisions and in diffraction dissociation experiments on accelerators.
  • cosmic radiation: hadronic component
  • cosmic radiation: flux
  • flux: cosmic radiation
  • showers: spatial distribution
  • hadron nucleus: interaction
  • interaction: hadron nucleus
  • charmed particle: hadroproduction
  • hadroproduction: charmed particle
  • hadron hadron: interaction
  • interaction: hadron hadron