Proton-air cross section measurement with the ARGO-YBJ cosmic ray experiment

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Aielli, G ^a,b   Bacci, C ^b,c   Bartoli, B ^d,e   Bernardini, P ^f,g   Bi, X J ^h   Bleve, C ^f,g   Branchini, P ^b   Budano, A ^b   Bussino, S ^b,c   Melcarne, A K Calabrese ⁱ   Camarri, P ^a,b   Cao, Z ^h   Cappa, A ^j,k   Cardarelli, R ^b   Catalanotti, S ^d,e   Cattaneo, C ^l   Celio, P ^b,c   Chen, S Z ^h   Chen, Y ^h   Cheng, N ^h   Creti, P ^g   Cui, S W ^m   Dai, B Z ⁿ   Staiti, G D'Alí ^o,p   Danzengluobu, ^q   Dattoli, M ^j,k,r   De Mitri, I ^f,g   D'Ettorre Piazzoli, B ^d,e   De Vincenzi, M ^b,c   Di Girolamo, T ^d,e   Ding, X H ^q   Di Sciascio, G ^b   Feng, C F ^s   Feng, Zhaoyang ^h   Feng, Zhenyong ^t   Galeazzi, F ^b   Galeotti, P ^j,r   Gargana, R ^b   Gou, Q B ^h   Guo, Y Q ^h   He, H H ^h   Hu, Haibing ^q   Hu, Hongbo ^h   Huang, Q ^t   Iacovacci, M ^d,e   Iuppa, R ^a,b   James, I ^b,c   Jia, H Y ^t   Labaciren, ^q   Li, H J ^q   Li, J Y ^s   Li, X X ^h   Liberti, B ^b   Liguori, G ^l,u   Liu, C ^h   Liu, C Q ⁿ   Liu, M Y ^m   Liu, J ⁿ   Lu, H ^h   Ma, X H ^h   Mancarella, G ^f,g   Mari, S M ^b,c   Marsella, G ^f,g   Martello, D ^f,g   Mastroianni, S ^d   Meng, X R ^q   Montini, P ^b,c   Ning, C C ^q   Pagliaro, A ^o,v   Panareo, M ^f,g   Perrone, L ^f,g   Pistilli, P ^b,c   Qu, X B ^s   Rossi, E ^d   Ruggieri, F ^b   Saggese, L ^d,e   Salvini, P ^l   Santonico, R ^a,b   Shen, P R ^h   Sheng, X D ^h   Shi, F ^h   Stanescu, C ^b   Surdo, A ^g   Tan, Y H ^h   Vallania, P ^j,k   Vernetto, S ^j,k   Vigorito, C ^j,k   Wang, B ^h   Wang, H ^h   Wu, C Y ^h   Wu, H R ^h   Xu, B ^t   Xue, L ^s   Yan, Y X ^m   Yang, Q Y ⁿ   Yang, X C ⁿ   Yuan, A F ^q   Zha, M ^h   Zhang, H M ^h   Zhang, Jilong ^h   Zhang, Jianli ^h   Zhang, L ⁿ   Zhang, P ⁿ   Zhang, X Y ^s   Zhang, Y ^h   Zhaxisangzhu, ^q   Zhou, X X ^t   Zhu, F R ^h   Zhu, Q Q ^h   Zizzi, G ^f,g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI LECCE   (Italy)

^h INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

ⁱ INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^j SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

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

^l INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^m HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁿ YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^o INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^q TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^s SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^t SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^u UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^v INAF IASF PALERMO   (Italy)

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EID: 71549164109     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.092004     Document Type: Article

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