Measurements of cross sections and charged pion spectra in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/c

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作者
Abgrall, N. [2 ]
Aduszkiewicz, A. [3 ]
Andrieu, B. [4 ]
Anticic, T. [5 ]
Antoniou, N. [6 ]
Argyriades, J. [2 ]
Asryan, A. G. [7 ]
Baatar, B. [1 ]
Blondel, A. [2 ]
Blumer, J. [8 ]
Bogusz, M. [9 ]
Boldizsar, L. [10 ]
Bravar, A. [2 ]
Brooks, W. [11 ]
Brzychczyk, J. [12 ]
Bubak, A. [13 ]
Bunyatov, S. A. [1 ]
Busygina, O. [14 ]
Cetner, T. [9 ]
Choi, K. -U. [15 ]
Christakoglou, P. [6 ]
Chung, P. [16 ]
Czopowicz, T. [9 ]
Davis, N. [6 ]
Diakonos, F. [6 ]
Di Luise, S. [17 ]
Dominik, W. [3 ]
Dumarchez, J. [4 ]
Engel, R. [8 ]
Ereditato, A. [18 ]
Esposito, L. S. [17 ]
Feofilov, G. A. [7 ]
Fodor, Z. [10 ]
Ferrero, A. [2 ]
Fulop, A. [10 ]
Garrido, X. [8 ]
Gazdzicki, M. [19 ,20 ]
Golubeva, M. [14 ]
Grebieszkow, K. [9 ]
Grzeszczuk, A. [13 ]
Guber, F. [14 ]
Hakobyan, H. [11 ]
Hasegawa, T. [21 ]
Igolkin, S. [7 ]
Ivanov, A. S. [7 ]
Ivanov, Y. [11 ]
Ivashkin, A. [14 ]
Kadija, K. [5 ]
Kapoyannis, A. [6 ]
Katrynska, N. [12 ]
机构
[1] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[2] Univ Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
[3] Univ Warsaw, Fac Phys, Warsaw, Poland
[4] Univ Paris VI & VII, LPNHE, Paris, France
[5] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia
[6] Univ Athens, Athens, Greece
[7] St Petersburg State Univ, St Petersburg, Russia
[8] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Karlsruhe, Germany
[9] Warsaw Univ Technol, Warsaw, Poland
[10] KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, Budapest, Hungary
[11] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
[12] Jagiellonian Univ, Krakow, Poland
[13] Univ Silesia, Katowice, Poland
[14] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow, Russia
[15] Pusan Natl Univ, Pusan 609735, South Korea
[16] SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[17] ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
[18] Univ Bern, Bern, Switzerland
[19] Jan Kochanowski Univ Humanities & Sci, Kielce, Poland
[20] Fachhsch Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
[21] High Energy Accelerator Res Org KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[22] Univ Sofia, Fac Phys, BU-1126 Sofia, Bulgaria
[23] Soltan Inst Nucl Studies, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[24] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
[25] Univ Bergen, Bergen, Norway
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 匈牙利科学研究基金会;
关键词
HADRONIC-INTERACTIONS; INCLUSIVE PRODUCTION; NUCLEI; COLLISIONS; MODEL;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevC.84.034604
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
Interaction cross sections and charged pion spectra in p + C interactions at 31 GeV/c were measured with the large-acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. These data are required to improve predictions of the neutrino flux for the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. A set of data collected during the first NA61/SHINE run in 2007 with an isotropic graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length was used for the analysis. The measured p + C inelastic and production cross sections are 257.2 +/- 1.9 +/- 8.9 and 229.3 +/- 1.9 +/- 9.0 mb, respectively. Inclusive production cross sections for negatively and positively charged pions are presented as functions of laboratory momentum in ten intervals of the laboratory polar angle covering the range from 0 up to 420 mrad. The spectra are compared with predictions of several hadron production models.
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