2004/10/08 by M. Rybczyński, M. Rybczynski, Z. Włodarczyk +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #astro-ph #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2005.07.042
published as Nucl. Phys. (Proc. Suppl.) B151 (2006) 363-366 · Presented at XIII ISVHECRI, Pylos, Greece, 6-12 September 2004
arxiv created 2004/10/08 · openalex publication_date 2005/12/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The showers of cosmic rays entering the Earth's atmosphere are main sources of information on cosmic rays and are also believed to provide information on elementary interactions at energies not accessible to accelerators. In this context we would like first to remind the role of inelasticity K and elementary cross section σ and then argue that similar in importance are fluctuations of different observables. The later will be illustrated by multiplicity fluctuations in hadronic and nuclear collisions.