Measurements of total production cross sections for $\pi^{+}$+C, $\pi^{+}$+Al, $K^{+}$+C, and $K^{+}$+Al at 60 GeV/c and $\pi^{+}$+C and $\pi^{+}$+Al at 31 GeV/c

• Main Authors: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, :, Aduszkiewicz, A, Antićić, T, Baatar, B, Baszczyk, M, Blondel, A, Bogomilov, M, Brandin, A, Bravar, A, Bryliński, W, Bunyatov, S. A, Bzdak, A, Cherif, H, Davis, N, Deveaux, M, Dominik, W, Dorosz, P, Dumarchez, J, Engel, R, Fodor, Z, Garibov, A, Gaździcki, M, Golosov, O, Golubeva, M, Grebieszkow, K, Haesler, A, Ilieva, S, Ivashkin, A, Johnson, S. R, Kadija, K, Kaptur, E, Kargin, N, Kashirin, E, Kiełbowicz, M, Klochkov, V, Kolev, D, Kovalenko, V. N, Kowalik, K, Kowalski, S, Koziel, M, Krasnoperov, A, Kucewicz, W, Kuich, M, Larsen, D, László, A, Lazareva, T. V, Łojek, K, Łysakowski, B, Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M, Majka, Z, Maksiak, B, Manić, D, Marcinek, A, Marino, A. D, Marton, K, Mathes, H. -J, Matulewicz, T, Matveev, V, Merzlaya, A, Mills, G. B, Morozov, S, Mrówczyński, S, Naskręt, M, Ozvenchuk, V, Paolone, V, Płaneta, R, Podlaski, P, Popov, B. A, Posiadała, M, Puławski, S, Puzović, J, Rauch, W, Renfordt, R, Röhrich, D, Rondio, E, Roth, M, Rustamov, A, Rybczynski, M, Rybicki, A, Sadovsky, A, Selyuzhenkov, I, Seyboth, P, Słodkowski, M, Snoch, A, Staszel, P, Stefanek, G, Stepaniak, J, Šuša, T, Tefelska, A, Toia, A, Tsenov, R, Turko, L, Ulrich, R, Unger, M, Veberič, D, Wickremasinghe, A, Włodarczyk, Z, Wyszyński, O, Yarritu, K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 11.05.2018
• Subjects: Physics - High Energy Physics - Experiment
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.04546

Phys. Rev. D 98, 052001 (2018) This paper presents several measurements of total production cross sections and total inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: $\pi^{+}$+C, $\pi^{+}$+Al, $K^{+}$+C, $K^{+}$+Al at 60 GeV/c, $\pi^{+}$+C and $\pi^{+}$+Al at 31 GeV/c . The measurements were made using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. Comparisons with previous measurements are given and good agreement is seen. These interaction cross sections measurements are a key ingredient for neutrino flux prediction from the reinteractions of secondary hadrons in current and future accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino experiments.