Specific Interactions at Cosmic Ray Energies for Extensive Air Showers Experiments

Abstract

The HIJING and VENUS models of relativistic hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions are used to study interactions of hadron-hadron, hadron-nitrogen and nucleus-nitrogen collisions, specific for the extensive air shower developments initiated by cosmic rays in the atmosphere. The transverse energy, transverse momenta and spectra of secondary particles as well as their energy and mass dependence have been investigated in detail. Results are presented with particular emphasis on the contributions of minijets in HIJING model and validity of superposition models in this energy range.

arXiv commentlatex, revtex, 44 pages, 20 figures, 7 tables , submitted to Astroparticle Physics

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