Iron Air collision with high density QCD
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Higher twist corrections to hadronic interactions become increasingly important at high energies. An effective way to resum all these contributions is the color glass condensate picture. We review the Kharzeev-Levin-Nardi (KLN)[1] approach to heavy ion collisions, which has successfully been applied to RHIC physics, and extrapolate this model to Iron-air collisions at energies up to the GZK (≈ 10 eV) cutoff. So far, we only calculate multiplicities. In the near future, we hope to present a full model which also treats the forward scattering in detail, which is important for air showers.
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