This paper presents a study on `hard' and `soft' interactions in
pp (pp) collisions using a phenomenological model of HIJING, the
jet-cone reconstruction method is employed to select the `hard' and
`soft' event sub-samples from minimum bias events. It is found that
the HIJING model can reproduce the energy scaling behaviour of mean
transverse momentum (< p
T>) distributions of charged
hadrons versus multiplicity (N
ch) in `soft' events. From the
PYTHIA simulation comparing with the HIJING model, the enhancement of
the kaon and proton yields from `hard' interactions comparing with
`soft' interactions is observed to be due to the mini-jets effect.
These mechanisms responsible for the increase of charged hadron's
T> are different in `soft' and `hard' interactions.