Inelastic and diffractive cross section measurements with the CMS experiment

Abstract

The inelastic cross section has been measured in proton-lead collisions at centre-of-mass energies per nucleon of 5.02 TeV at the LHC. Nuclear scaling effects play an important role in the simulation of cosmic ray interactions and are studied in collisions with lead nuclei. We present an overview of the related results published by the CMS Collaboration.

Cosmic rays: air showers from low to high energies

“…Measurements like the ones of Auger have triggered a new line of research in which the data from cosmic ray experiments are used to constrain the hadronic models. For example, a new analysis strategy to find an optimal global description of the underlying physics using accelerator and ultra-high energy cosmic ray data has been discussed in [75].…”