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 Super Proton Synchrotron 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 productio...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Phys.Rev.D 2021-01, Vol.103 (1), p.1, Article 012006
Hauptverfasser:	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.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Attenuation Carbon Cross-sections Experiments High Energy Physics - Experiment Neutrinos Particle physics Physics PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS Proton beams Synchrotrons Uncertainty
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Zusammenfassung:	The production cross section of 30.92 GeV/c protons on carbon is measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron 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 quasielastic interactions. The obtained production cross section is σprod = 227.6 ± 0.8 (stat)+1.9−3.2 (sys) −0.8 (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 will reduce the uncertainty of the T2K neutrino flux prediction.
ISSN:	2470-0010 2470-0029
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012006