Measurement of the proton-air inelastic cross section at s≈2TeV from the EAS-TOP experiment

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Aglietta, M ^a,b   Alessandro, B ^b   Antonioli, P ^c   Arneodo, F ^d   Bergamasco, L ^b,e   Bertaina, M ^b,e   Castellina, A ^a,b   Cantoni, E ^a,e   Chiavassa, A ^b,e   D'Ettorre Piazzoli, B ^f   Di Sciascio, G ^f,g   Fulgione, W ^a,b   Galeotti, P ^b,e   Ghia, P L ^a,h   Iacovacci, M ^f   Mannocchi, G ^a,b   Morello, C ^a,b   Navarra, G ^b,e   Saavedra, O ^b,e   Stamerra, A ^e,i   Trinchero, G C ^a,b   Vallania, P ^a,b   Vernetto, S ^a,b   Vigorito, C ^b,e   more..

^a Istituto di Fisica Dello Spazio Interplanetario INAF   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 62249142838     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.032004     Document Type: Article

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