Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"1 High Energy Cosmic Ray and Accelerator Cross Sections Reconciled Martin M. Block Northwestern University Evanston IL Venice Italy
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"2 Outline Part I: fitting total cross sections, values and B, nuclear slopes of accelerator data--p-p and pbar-p--using a QCD-inspired model M.M. Block, E.M. Gregores, F Halzen & G. Pancheri Part II: predicting -p and - cross sections from nucleon-nucleon fit M.M. Block, E.M. Gregores, F. Halzen & G. Pancheri Part III: global fit using both cosmic ray and accelerator data simultaneously M.M. Block, F. Halzen & T. Stanev
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"3 Part I: fitting total cross sections, values and B, nuclear slopes, of accelerator data--p-p and pbar-p-- using a QCD- inspired model Eduardo, Martin, Francis 3 of 4 authors working hard! Giulia, #4 author M.M. Block, E.M. Gregores, F. Halzen & G. Pancheri
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Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"8 Froissart Bound
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"9 Low Energy Behavior
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Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"11 Results of the 2 Fit to and B data from pp and pbar-p vs. energy vs. energy B vs. energy
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"12 Elastic Scattering d /dt, at 1800 GeV Predictions from Nucleon-Nucleon Eikonal
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"13 Part II: Predicting -p and - cross sections from nucleon-nucleon fit M.M. Block, E.M. Gregores, F. Halzen & G. Pancheri Making predictions isn’t easy work!
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Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"16 p Predictions B Compton amplitude dispersion relation, M. Damashek and F.J. Gilman, Phys. Rev. D 1, 1319 (1970)
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"17 “Elastic” Vector Meson Final States +p V i +p V i +p V i = +p +p +p +p
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"18 d /dt, for “Elastic” Scattering +p +p +p +p +p +p
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"19 Exact! See M. Block and A. Kaidalov, hep- ph/
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"20 tot ( )
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"21 Part III: global fit using both cosmic ray and accelerator data simultaneously M.M. Block, F. Halzen & T. Stanev Todor thinking? Francis wearing money tie (for ICE CUBE?)
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"22 accelerator data give good fit The published cosmic ray data (the Diamond and Triangles) are the problem
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"23 EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE Fig. 7 X max distribution with exponential trailing edge Monte Carlo Example Fly’s Eye Shower Profile Fig. 1 An extensive air shower that survives all data cuts. The curve is a Gaisser-Hillas shower- development function: shower parameters E=1.3 EeV and X max =727 ± 33 g cm -2 give the best fit.
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Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"25 Published Fly’s Eye Result: tot ( p-air ) = 540 ± 50 mb See R. Engel et al, Phys. Rev. D58, (1998), for tot (p-air) curves, using Glauber theory
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"26 tot (p-p) vs. inel (p-air) inel (p-air) vs. energy Results of Global Fit, Cosmic Ray and Accelerator Data
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Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"28 vs. energy Result of Global fit for tot (pp) and tot (pbar-p), using both Accelerator and Cosmic Ray Data
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Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"30 A Useful High Energy Parameterization of inel (p-air) : inel (p-air) = ln s ln 2 s, in mb, s in Gev 2 inel (p-air), in mb Cms Energy, in GeV
Venice, 3/9/01"Neutrino Telescopes"31 inel (p-air) = 0 [1+ a 0 ln(E lab /1000)], 0 = mb, a 0 = , E lab in GeV. inel (p-air), in mb E lab /1000, in GeV A High Energy Parameterization of inel (p-air), useful for calculating Neutrino Fluxes