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

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.

The talk presented at the IXth Blois Workshop, Pruhonice near Prague, June 9-15, 2001, Latex2e, 7 figures, this version was sent for publication in the Physics Letters B; misprints in caption for figures removed, improved cosmic ray data from current database included