Proton-Proton Total Cross-Sections from the Window of Cosmic Ray Experiments

TL;DR

This paper discusses how cosmic-ray experiments provide valuable data on proton-proton total cross sections, supporting the understanding of fundamental particle interaction dynamics.

Contribution

It demonstrates that cosmic-ray measurements align with earlier global structures of proton-proton cross sections, confirming their consistency.

Findings

Cosmic-ray data agree with global proton-proton cross section structures.

Cosmic-ray experiments support existing models of proton interactions.

Early measurements are compatible with recent cosmic-ray results.

Abstract

The importance of cosmic-ray experimental measurements of proton-proton total cross sections to understand the underlying fundamental dynamics is discussed. It is shown that early discovered global structure of proton-proton total cross section [5,17] is completely compatible with the values obtained from cosmic-ray experiments.