Inclusive production of charged pions in p + C collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum

By C. Alt, B. Baatar, D. Barna, G. Barr, J. Bartke, L. Betev, H. Bialkowska, C. Blume, B. Boimska, J. Bracinik and 55 more. 2005

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The production of charged pions in minimum bias p+C interactions is studied using a sample of 377000 inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the CERN SPS at 158 GeV/c beam momentum. The data cover a phase space area ranging from 0 to 1.8 GeV/c in transverse momentum and from -0.1 to 0.5 in Feynman xF. Inclusive invariant cross sections are given on a grid of 270 bins per charge, thus offering for the first time a dense coverage of the projectile hemisphere and of the cross-over region into the target fragmentation zone.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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