2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/44095We discuss the need to compare total cross-section measurements at LHC and HERA with each other and with available models in order to obtain a more precise prediction of the total hadronic cross-section at the future Linear Collider, thus leading to a better estimate of the hadronic background.5 pages, three figures, Talk presented by G. Pancheri at the International Linear Collider Workshop, Paris, April, 2004High Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext