Abstract
It is shown that evidence on cosmic-ray showers of energy 3× to eV indicates that scaling in the fragmentation region is valid up to the highest energies if (and only if) hadron-air inelastic cross sections continue to rise in the manner observed at lower energies. It is also shown, with use of additional air-shower evidence, that , the logarithmic mean primary mass number, changes from (4±2) at 1.6× eV to () at and above 3× eV.
- Received 31 July 1980
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.459
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