40 research outputs found
Photoproduction with a mini-jet model and Cosmic Ray showers
We present post-LHC updates of estimates of the total photo-production cross
section in a mini-jet model with infrared soft gluon resummation, and apply the
model to study Cosmic Ray shower development, comparing the results with those
obtained from other existing models.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, presented at Photon 2017, 22-26 May 2017 CER
Probing strong dynamics with cosmic neutrinos
IceCube has observed 80 astrophysical neutrino candidates in the energy range 0.02 Eν/PeV2. Deep inelastic scattering of these neutrinos with nucleons on Antarctic ice sheet probe center-of-mass energies s∼1 TeV. By comparing the rates for two classes of observable events, any departure from the benchmark (perturbative QCD) neutrino-nucleon cross section can be constrained. Using the projected sensitivity of South Pole next-generation neutrino telescope we show that this facility will provide a unique probe of strong interaction dynamics. In particular, we demonstrate that the high-energy high-statistics data sample to be recorded by IceCube-Gen2 in the very near future will deliver a direct measurement of the neutrino-nucleon cross section at s∼1 TeV, with a precision comparable to perturbative QCD informed by HERA data. We also use IceCube data to extract the neutrino-nucleon cross section at s∼1 TeV through a likelihood analysis, considering (for the first time) both the charged-current and neutral-current contributions as free parameters of the likelihood function.Fil: Anchordoqui, Luis A.. American Museum of Natural History; Estados Unidos. City University of New York; Estados UnidosFil: Garcia Canal, Carlos Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Física La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Física La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Soriano, Jorge F.. City University of New York; Estados Unido
On the dbar/ubar Asymmetry and Parton Distributions
We discuss the impact of different measurements of the dbar/ubar asymmetry in
the extraction of parameterizations of parton distribution functions.Comment: Contributed paper to LP01, 13 pages, 4 figure
Photoproduction models for total cross section and shower development
A model for the total photoproduction cross section based on the ansatz that
resummation of infrared gluons limits the rise induced by QCD minijets in all
the total cross-sections, is used to simulate extended air showers initiated by
cosmic rays with the AIRES simulation program. The impact on common shower
observables, especially those related with muon production, is analysed and
compared with the corresponding results obtained with previous photoproduction
models.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Proceedings of ISVHCRI 201
People as a Service: a mobile-centric model for providing collective sociological profiles
Mobile devices have become increasingly popular in the everyday life of many individuals. By taking an insight into the most common uses of mobile devices we clearly appreciate that accessing internetbased services has grown greatly. This, and the fact that they are extremely personal gadgets has turned them into the main interface used by individuals to express themselves towards the outside world and to receive information from others. As a result of the highly personal use, mobile devices have been granted the potential to become unrivaled devices
for building and storing the virtual profiles of their owners. Access to such profiles is of great interest in fields such as governance, health, smart cities, etc. Generating a centralized profile of a user is a task upon which a lot of interest has been put in the field of social mining. People-as-a-Service (PeaaS) is a computing model that seeks to establish the foundations upon which technologies that rely on mobile-centric computing models for social purposes should evolve.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec
An explanation of the muon puzzle of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and the role of the Forward Physics Facility for model improvement
We investigate the observed muon deficit in air shower simulations when
compared to ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) data. Based upon the observed
enhancement of strangeness production in high-energy hadronic collisions
reported by the ALICE Collaboration, the concomitant
swap is considered as the keystone to resolve the muon anomaly through its
corresponding impact on the shower development. We construct a toy model in
terms of the swapping probability . We present a
parametrization of in terms of the pseudorapidity that can accommodate
the UHECR data. Looking to the future, we explore potential strategies for
model improvement using the massive amounts of data to be collected by LHC
neutrino detectors, such as FASER and experiments at the Forward Physics
Facility. We calculate the corresponding sensitivity to and show that
these experiments will be able to probe the model phase space.Comment: To be published in JHEA