Forward hard scattering in hadron-hadron collisions in the energy region approximately 10/sup 14/ eV

On the basis of the quark-parton picture, the author derives analytically the cross sections for production of hadrons and gamma rays through forward hard scattering in hadron-hadron collisions in the energy region approximately 10/sup 14/ eV. The author takes account of transverse motions both of partons inside proton (p/sub T/) /sub p to q/, and of hadrons fragmented from quark (gluon) (k/sub T/) /sub 1 to h/. In addition, the effects of scale violation are taken into account. The numerical results thus obtained are compared with cosmic-ray data in the energy region approximately 10/sup 14/ eV, observed at Mt. Chacaltaya by Japan-Brazil emulsion-chamber collaboration. After eliminating carefully the bias effect inherent there, it was found that the theoretical calculations reproduced surprisingly well the cosmic-ray data on large p/sub T gamma / not only in the shape, but also in the absolute value. The production cross sections of pi /sup +/ and K/sup +/ expected from the forthcoming p-p colliding beams with square root s=540 GeV at Fermilab and CERN in the early 1980s were also obtained with use of the formula derived in the present paper. (35 refs).