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

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Aduszkiewicz, A, Andronov, E, Antićić, T, Baszczyk, M, Bhosale, S, Blondel, A, Bogomilov, M, Brandin, A, Bravar, A, Bryliński, W, Bunyatov, S A, Busygina, O, Bzdak, A, Ćirković, M, Czopowicz, T, Damyanova, A, Dominik, W, Dumarchez, J, Engel, R, Fields, L, Garibov, A, Gaździcki, M, Golubeva, M, Guber, F, Haesler, A, Igolkin, S, Ilieva, S, Ivashkin, A, Johnson, S R, Kadija, K, Kaptur, E, Kargin, N, Kireyeu, V A, Kolesnikov, V I, Kolev, D, Korzenev, A, Kovalenko, V N, Kowalik, K, Kowalski, S, Koziel, M, Kucewicz, W, Kuich, M, Kurepin, A, László, A, Lazareva, T V, Lewicki, M, Łojek, K, Łysakowski, B, Lyubushkin, V V, Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M, Malakhov, A I, Manić, D, Marchionni, A, Marcinek, A, Marino, A D, Marton, K, H -J Mathes, Matveev, V, Messerly, B, Mills, G B, Morozov, S, Mrówczyński, S, Nagai, Y, Ozvenchuk, V, Paolone, V, Pavin, M, Petukhov, O, Płaneta, R, Posiadała, M, Rauch, W, Ravonel, M, Renfordt, R, Richter-Wąs, E, Röhrich, D, Rondio, E, Roth, M, Rustamov, A, Rybczynski, M, Rybicki, A, Sadovsky, A, Schmidt, K, Selyuzhenkov, I, A Yu Seryakov, Seyboth, P, Słodkowski, M, Snoch, A, Stefanek, G, Ströbele, H, Šuša, T, Taranenko, A, Tereshchenko, V, Toia, A, Tsenov, R, Turko, L, Unger, M, Vechernin, V V, Włodarczyk, Z, Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A, Zambelli, L, Zwaska, R
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 17.09.2019
• Subjects: Cross-sections; Hadrons; Neutrinos; Synchrotrons
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.04546

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.