Nonlinear screening effects in high energy hadronic interactions
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In this article, the authors treated nonlinear effects in hadronic interactions by means of enhanced Pomeron diagrams and showed that the contribution of semihard processes to the interaction eikonal contains a significant nonfactorizable part.Abstract:
Nonlinear effects in hadronic interactions are treated by means of enhanced Pomeron diagrams, assuming that Pomeron-Pomeron coupling is dominated by soft partonic processes. It is shown that the approach allows to resolve a seeming contradiction between realistic parton momentum distributions, measured in deep inelastic scattering experiments, and the energy behavior of total proton-proton cross section. Also a general consistency with both soft and hard diffraction data is demonstrated. An important feature of the proposed scheme is that the contribution of semihard processes to the interaction eikonal contains a significant nonfactorizable part. On the other hand, the approach preserves the QCD factorization picture for inclusive high-${p}_{t}$ jet production.read more
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The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)
A. Aab,P. Abreu,Marco Aglietta,Eun-Joo Ahn,I. Al Samarai,Ivone F. M. Albuquerque,I. Allekotte,Patrick Allison,Alejandro Almela,J. Alvarez Castillo,Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz,R. Alves Batista,M. Ambrosio,Amin Aminaei,Gioacchino Alex Anastasi,Luis A. Anchordoqui,Sofia Andringa,Carla Aramo,F. Arqueros,Nicusor Arsene,Hernán Gonzalo Asorey,Pedro Assis,Julien Aublin,Gualberto Avila,N. Awal,Alina Mihaela Badescu,Colin Baus,J. J. Beatty,K.-H. Becker,Jose A. Bellido,Corinne Berat,M. E. Bertaina,Xavier Bertou,Peter L. Biermann,Pierre Billoir,S. G. Blaess,A. Blanco,M. Blanco,Jonathan Blazek,Carla Bleve,Harsha Blumer,Martina Bohacova,Denise Boncioli,Carla Bonifazi,Nataliia Borodai,Jeffrey Brack,I.M. Brancus,Thomas Bretz,A. Bridgeman,P. Brogueira,Peter Buchholz,Antonio Bueno,Stijn Buitink,Mario Buscemi,Karen S. Caballero-Mora,B. Caccianiga,Lorenzo Caccianiga,M. Candusso,L. Caramete,Rossella Caruso,Antonella Castellina,G. Cataldi,Lorenzo Cazon,R. Cester,A. G. Chavez,A. Chiavassa,Jose Chinellato,Jiri Chudoba,Marco Cilmo,Roger W Clay,G. Cocciolo,Roberta Colalillo,Alan Coleman,L. Collica,Maria Rita Coluccia,R. Conceição,Fernando Contreras,M. J. Cooper,A. Cordier,S. Coutu,Corbin Covault,J. W. Cronin,Richard Dallier,Bruno Daniel,Sergio Dasso,Kai Daumiller,Bruce R. Dawson,R. M. de Almeida,S. J. De Jong,G. De Mauro,J. R. T. de Mello Neto,I. De Mitri,J. de Oliveira,V. de Souza,L. del Peral,Olivier Deligny,Niraj Dhital,C. Di Giulio,A. Di Matteo,J. C. Diaz,M. L. Díaz Castro,F. Diogo,Carola Dobrigkeit,W. Docters,Juan Carlos D'Olivo,A. Dorofeev,Q. Dorosti Hasankiadeh,R.C. dos Anjos,M. T. Dova,Jan Ebr,R. Engel,Martin Erdmann,M. Erfani,Carlos Escobar,J. Espadanal,A. Etchegoyen,Heino Falcke,Ke Fang,G. Farrar,A. C. Fauth,N. Fazzini,A. P. Ferguson,Brian Fick,Juan Manuel Figueira,Alberto Filevich,Andrej Filipcic,Octavian Fratu,Martín Miguel Freire,Takahiro Fujii,Bruce Rafael Mellado Garcia,D. Garcia-Gamez,D. Garcia-Pinto,Florian Gaté,H. Gemmeke,Alexandru Gherghel-Lascu,P. L. Ghia,Ugo Giaccari,Marco Giammarchi,M. Giller,Dariusz Glas,Christian Glaser,H. Glass,G. Golup,M. Gómez Berisso,P.F. Gómez Vitale,Nicolás González,B. Gookin,Joshua A. Gordon,A. Gorgi,Peter Gorham,P. Gouffon,N. Griffith,A. F. Grillo,Trent D. Grubb,F. Guarino,G. P. Guedes,Matías Rolf Hampel,P. H. Hansen,D. Harari,Thomas Harrison,S. Hartmann,J. L. Harton,A. Haungs,Thomas Hebbeker,D. Heck,P. Heimann,A. Hervé,G. C. Hill,C. Hojvat,N. Hollon,E.M. Holt,Piotr Homola,J.R. Hörandel,Pavel Horvath,Miroslav Hrabovský,D. Huber,T. Huege,A. Insolia,Paula Gina Isar,I. Jandt,S. Jansen,C. Jarne,Jeffrey A. Johnsen,M. Josebachuili,Alex Kääpä,O. Kambeitz,Karl-Heinz Kampert,P. H. Kasper,Igor Katkov,B. Keilhauer,E. Kemp,R. M. Kieckhafer,H.O. Klages,M. Kleifges,J. Kleinfeller,R. Krause,N. Krohm,Daniel Kuempel,G. Kukec Mezek,N. Kunka,A. Kuotb Awad,D. LaHurd,Luca Latronico,R. J. Lauer,Markus Lauscher,Pascal Lautridou,S. Le Coz,D. Lebrun,Ph. Lebrun,M. A. Leigui de Oliveira,A. Letessier-Selvon,I. Lhenry-Yvon,K. Link,L. Lopes,R. Rebolo Lopez,A. López Casado,K. Louedec,A. Lucero,M. Malacari,Manuela Mallamaci,J. Maller,Dusan Mandat,P. Mantsch,A. G. Mariazzi,Vincent Marin,I. C. Mariş,G. Marsella,D. Martello,H. Martinez,O. Martínez Bravo,D. Martraire,J. J. Masías Meza,H. J. Mathes,S. Mathys,J. A. Matthews,J. A. J. Matthews,G. Matthiae,D. Maurizio,E. Mayotte,P.O. Mazur,C. Medina,G. Medina-Tanco,R. Meissner,V. B. B. Mello,D. Melo,A. Menshikov,S. Messina,M. I. Micheletti,Lukas Middendorf,I. A. Minaya,Lino Miramonti,B. Mitrica,L. Molina-Bueno,Silvia Mollerach,François Montanet,C. Morello,Miguel Mostafa,C. A. Moura,G. Müller,Marcio Aparecido Muller,S. Müller,S. Navas,P. Necesal,L. Nellen,A. Nelles,J. Neuser,P. H. Nguyen,Mihai Niculescu-Oglinzanu,Marcus Niechciol,L. Niemietz,Tim Niggemann,D. Nitz,D. Nosek,V. Novotny,L. Nožka,Luis A. Nunez,L. Ochilo,Foteini Oikonomou,Angela V. Olinto,N. Pacheco,D. Pakk Selmi-Dei,M. Palatka,J. Pallotta,Philipp Papenbreer,G. Parente,A. Parra,T. Paul,Miroslav Pech,Jan Pękala,R. Pelayo,I. M. Pepe,L. Perrone,E. Petermann,Christine Peters,S. Petrera,Y. Petrov,J. Phuntsok,R. Piegaia,T. Pierog,P. Pieroni,M. Pimenta,V. Pirronello,M. Platino,M. Plum,A. Porcelli,C. Porowski,R. R. Prado,Paolo Privitera,M. Prouza,E. J. Quel,S. Querchfeld,S. Quinn,J. Rautenberg,Olivier Ravel,D. Ravignani,D. Reinert,B. Revenu,J. Ridky,M. Risse,P. Ristori,Vincenzo Rizi,W. Rodrigues de Carvalho,J. Rodriguez Rojo,M. D. Rodríguez-Frías,D. Rogozin,Jaime Rosado,Markus Roth,Esteban Roulet,A. C. Rovero,S. J. Saffi,Alexandra Saftoiu,F. Salamida,Humberto Ibarguen Salazar,A. Saleh,F. Salesa Greus,G. Salina,J.D. Sanabria Gomez,F. Sanchez,P. Sanchez-Lucas,E. M. Santos,Elton J. G. Santos,F. Sarazin,B. Sarkar,Raul Sarmento,Christian Sarmiento-Cano,R. Sato,C. Scarso,M. Schauer,V. Scherini,H. Schieler,David Schmidt,Olaf Scholten,Harm Schoorlemmer,Petr Schovanek,Frank G. Schröder,André Schulz,Johannes Schulz,Jorn Schumacher,S. J. Sciutto,A. Segreto,M. Settimo,A. Shadkam,R. C. Shellard,Günter Sigl,Octavian Sima,A. Śmiałkowski,Radomir Smida,Gregory R. Snow,Paul Sommers,S. Sonntag,J. Sorokin,R. Squartini,Yogendra N. Srivastava,Denis Stanca,Samo Stanič,J. Stapleton,J. Stasielak,Maurice Stephan,A. Stutz,F. Suarez,M. Suarez Durán,T. Suomijärvi,A.D. Supanitsky,M. S. Sutherland,J.E. Swain,Z. Szadkowski,O. A. Taborda,A. Tapia,A. Tepe,V. M. Theodoro,O. Tibolla,C. J.W.P. Timmermans,C. J. Todero Peixoto,G. Toma,Lenka Tomankova,B. Tome,A. Tonachini,G. Torralba Elipe,D. Torres Machado,Petr Travnicek,M. Trini,Ralf Ulrich,M. Unger,Michael Urban,J. F. Valdés Galicia,I. Valiño,L. Valore,G. van Aar,P. van Bodegom,A.M. van den Berg,S. van Velzen,A. van Vliet,E. Varela,B. Vargas Cárdenas,G. S. Varner,R. Vasquez,J. R. Vázquez,R. A. Vázquez,Darko Veberič,Valerio Verzi,J. Vicha,M. Videla,L. Villaseñor,B. Vlcek,Serguei Vorobiov,Hernan Wahlberg,O. Wainberg,David Walz,Alan Watson,M. Weber,K. Weidenhaupt,A. Weindl,Christoph Welling,F. Werner,A. Widom,L. R. Wiencke,H. Wilczyński,Tobias Winchen,David Wittkowski,B. Wundheiler,Sarka Wykes,Lili Yang,T. Yapici,A. N. Yushkov,Enrique Zas,D. Zavrtanik,M. Zavrtanik,A. Zepeda,Benedikt Zimmermann,M. Ziolkowski,Francesca Zuccarello +450 more
TL;DR: Contributions of the Pierre Auger Collaboration to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July - 6 August 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands as discussed by the authors, 30 July-6 August 2015
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