https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612503013
Constraints on high energy interaction models from LHC and cosmic ray data
1 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2 D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
* e-mail: sergei@tf.phys.ntnu.no
Published online: 28 October 2016
Predictions of popular cosmic ray interaction models for some basic characteristics of cosmic ray-induced extensive air showers are analyzed in view of experimental data on proton-proton collisions, obtained at the Large Hadron Collider. The differences between the results are traced down to different approaches for the treatment of hadronic interactions, implemented in those models. Potential measurements by LHC and cosmic ray experiments, which could be able to discriminate between the alternative approaches, are proposed.
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