Fagundes, D. A. [UNESP]Grau, A.Pancheri, G.Srivastava, Y. N.Shekhovtsova, O.2015-10-212015-10-212015-06-08Physical Review D, v. 91, n. 11, p. 1-12, 2015.1550-7998http://hdl.handle.net/11449/128995We show that the onset and rise of QCD minijets provide the dynamical mechanism behind the appearance of a soft edge in pp collisions around CERN intersecting storage rings (ISR) energies, and thus such a soft edge is built in our minijet model with soft gluon resummation. Here the model is optimized for the LHC at root s = 7, 8 TeV and predictions made for higher LHC and cosmic ray energies. Further, we provide a phenomenological picture to discuss the breakup of the total cross section into its elastic, uncorrelated, and correlated inelastic pieces in the framework of a one-channel eikonal function.1-12engArtigo10.1103/PhysRevD.91.114011WOS:000355723700002Acesso restrito