  In the framework of eikonalized mini-jet model, contributions from gluon
recombination effects are studied for the free proton in $pp$ and $\bar p p$
reactions. The nuclear configurational entropy is then used to calculate the
main parameters to estimate the total proton cross sections for the recent data
LHC, also corroborating to previous developments. Photoproduction cross
sections with vector meson dominance and saturation effects for both total
hadronic and photonic cross sections at a high energy regime are investigated.
Extreme points of the configurational entropy provide the experimentally
obtained cross sections within an optimal root-mean-square deviation.
