Some consequences for LHC experiments from the results of cosmic ray investigations above the knee

TL;DR

This paper discusses how cosmic ray investigations above the knee influence LHC experiments, analyzing features like mass composition changes and unusual events within a new quark-gluon matter interaction model.

Contribution

It introduces a new hadron interaction model involving quark-gluon blobs to explain cosmic ray phenomena and explores implications for LHC experiments.

Findings

Changes in mass composition observed above the knee

Presence of unusual cosmic ray events

Implications for LHC experimental strategies

Abstract

Experimental data obtained in cosmic ray investigations at energies above the knee are discussed. All features observed at these energies starting from the knee, changes of mass composition and concluding with various types of unusual events are analysed in the framework of the new hadron interaction model producing blobs of quark gluon matter. Consequences for LHC experiments are considered.