Abstract
The cosmic ray energy region 10<sup>15</sup> ÷ 10<sup>17</sup>TeV corresponds to LHC energies 1 ÷ 14TeV in the center-of-mass system. The results obtained in cosmic rays (CR) in this energy interval can therefore be used for developing new approaches to the analysis of experimental data, for interpreting the results, and for planning new experiments. The main problem in cosmic ray investigations is the remarkable excess of muons, which increases with energy and cannot be explained by means of contemporary theoretical models. Some possible new explanations of this effect and other unusual phenomena observed in CR, and ways of searching for them in the LHC experiments are discussed.
Highlights
The discovery of the Higgs boson is the main task for LHC, and this task will be solved in the nearest future
The purpose of this paper is to analize the consequences for the LHC experiments that follow from the results of cosmic rays (CR) investigations at energies more than 1015 eV
Since there are no other ways to generate VHE muons, apart from the production of massive particles, these results practically prove the approach considered here
Summary
The discovery of the Higgs boson is the main task for LHC, and this task will be solved in the nearest future (positively or negatively). There are many tasks connected with investigations of hadron-hadron interactions at LHC energies, tests of existing theoretical models behavior at such energies, etc. LHC energies of 1 ÷ 14 TeV correspond to the interval 1015 ÷ 1017 eV in the laboratory system for pp-interaction (for nuclei–nuclei interactions the upper limit can be higher). Namely at these energies many interesting and sometimes unusual results have been observed in CR investigations. The results of CR experiments can be interpreted in two ways: as an investigation of particle interaction if to believe that the energy spectrum and composition of CR are known, and as a study of the characteristics of CR flux if to assume that hadron interaction model is known. The purpose of this paper is to analize the consequences for the LHC experiments that follow from the results of CR investigations at energies more than 1015 eV
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