TY - JOUR AU - Masip Mellado, Manuel AU - Rosario, Ivan AU - Sciutto, Sergio J. PY - 2023 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/84314 AB - We discuss the electromagnetic collisions of high energy protons, pions and kaons with atmospheric nuclei. In particular, we use the equivalent photon approximation to estimate (i) the diffractive collisions where the projectile scatters inelastically... LA - eng PB - IOPScience KW - Cosmic ray theory KW - Ultra high energy cosmic rays TI - Ultra-peripheral collisions of charged hadrons in extensive air showers DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/07/025 ER -