Measurements of $$\pi ^{\pm }$$ π ± , $$K^{\pm }$$ K ± , $$K^0_S$$ K S 0 , $$\varLambda $$ Λ and proton production in proton–carbon interactions at 31 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, Evgeny Andronov, T. Antićić, N. G. Antoniou, B. Baatar, F. Bay, A. Blondel, J. Blümer

Abstract

Measurements of hadron production in p + C interactions at 31 GeV/c are performed using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data collected in 2009 using a graphite target with a thickness of 4 % of a nuclear interaction length. Inelastic and production cross sections as well as spectra of $$\pi ^{\pm }$$ , $$K^{\pm }$$ , p, $$K^0_S$$ and $$\varLambda $$ are measured with high precision. These measurements are essential for improved calculations of the initial neutrino fluxes in the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. A comparison of the NA61/SHINE measurements with predictions of several hadroproduction models is presented.

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