Rising Total Hadron-Hadron Cross Sections

TL;DR

This paper reviews the historical measurements of increasing total hadron-hadron cross sections across various accelerators and cosmic ray data, highlighting the experimental evidence for rising cross sections at high energies.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive summary of experimental data on hadron-hadron cross sections from multiple facilities and cosmic ray observations, emphasizing the observed rise at high energies.

Findings

Total cross sections increase with energy at high energies.

Experimental data from accelerators and cosmic rays support the rising trend.

Highlights the importance of high-energy measurements for understanding hadronic interactions.

Abstract

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 and Fermilab fixed target accelerators; then the measurements at the CERN Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR), and at the CERN and at the Tevatron Fermilab proton-antiproton colliders; finally the cosmic ray measurements at even higher energies. A short discussion on Conclusions and Perspectives follows.