Measurement of the production cross section of 31 GeV/$c$ protons on carbon via beam attenuation in a 90-cm-long target

The production cross section of 30.92 GeV/$c$ protons on carbon is measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS by means of beam attenuation in a copy (replica) of the 90-cm-long target of the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment. The employed method for direct production cross-section est...

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Autores principales: Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Aduszkiewicz, A., Allison, K.K., Andronov, E.V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G.A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S.N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S.R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V.A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V.I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V.N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T.V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V.V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A.I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A.D., Marton, K., Mathes, H.-J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G.L., Merzlaya, A.O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B.A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D.S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B.T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A.Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F.F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V.V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wojcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E.D., Zwaska, R.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2020
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012006
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2741575
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Sumario:The production cross section of 30.92 GeV/$c$ protons on carbon is measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS by means of beam attenuation in a copy (replica) of the 90-cm-long target of the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment. The employed method for direct production cross-section estimation minimizes model corrections for elastic and quasi-elastic interactions. The obtained production cross section is $\sigma_\mathrm{prod}~=~227.6~\pm~0.8\mathrm{(stat)}~_{-~3.2}^{+~1.9}\mathrm{(sys)}~{-~0.8}\mathrm{(mod)}$ mb. It is in agreement with previous NA61/SHINE results obtained with a thin carbon target, while providing improved precision with a total fractional uncertainty of less than 2%. This direct measurement is performed to reduce the uncertainty on the T2K neutrino flux prediction associated with the re-weighting of the interaction rate of neutrino-yielding hadrons.

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