https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159910005
Photoproduction models for total cross section and shower development
1 Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos and Centro Anadaluz de Física de Partículas, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
2 Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, IFLP, CONICET, C.C.67, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
3 INFN Frascati National Laboratories, via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, Italy
a e-mail: cornet@ugr.es
b e-mail: cgarciacanal@fisica.unlp.edu.ar
c e-mail: igrau@ugr.es
d e-mail: pancheri@lnf.infn.it
e e-mail: sciutto@fisica.unlp.edu.ar
Published online: 4 August 2015
A model for the total photoproduction cross section, based on the ansatz that resummation of infrared gluons limits the rise induced by QCD minijets in all the total cross-sections, is used to simulate extended air showers initiated by cosmic rays with the AIRES simulation program. The impact on common shower observables, especially those related with muon production, is analysed and compared with the corresponding results obtained with previous photoproduction models.
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