Cross Sections and Charged Pion Spectra in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c
By L. Esposito, for the NA49 collaboration. 2011
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As neutrino long baseline experiments enter a new domain of precision, the careful study of systematic errors due to poor knowledge of production cross sections for pions and kaons require more dedicated measurements for precise neutrino flux predictions. The cosmic ray experiments require dedicated hadron production measurements to tune simulation models used to describe air shower profiles. Among other goals, the NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) experiment at the CERN SPS aims at precision measurements (5% and below) for both neutrino and cosmic ray experiments: those will improve the prediction of the neutrino flux for the T2K experiment at J-PARC and the prediction of muon production in the propagation of air showers for the Auger and KASCADE experiments. NA61/SHINE took data during a pilot run in 2007 and in 2009 and 2010 with different carbon targets. The NA61/SHINE set-up and spectra for positive and negative pions obtained with the 2007 thin (4% interaction length) carbon target data are presented.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system (2014, result): “The first experimental results were published in [8, 9].”
- The T2K experiment (2024, unknown): “Specifically, hadron production by 30 GeV protons on a graphite target was measured by a dedicated experiment, NA61/SHINE [30,31], which fully covers the kinematic region of interest for T2K.”