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Measurement of the production cross-section of positive pions in p Al collisions at 12.9-GeV/c.

The HARP collaboration Catanesi, M.G. ; Muciaccia, M.T. ; Radicioni, E. ; et al.

Nucl.Phys.B 732 (2006) 1-45, 2006.

Inspire Record 695147 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.41874

A precision measurement of the double-differential production cross-section, ${{d^2 \sigma^{\pi^+}}}/{{d p d\Omega}}$, for pions of positive charge, performed in the HARP experiment is presented. The incident particles are protons of 12.9 GeV/c momentum impinging on an aluminium target of 5% nuclear interaction length. The measurement of this cross-section has a direct application to the calculation of the neutrino flux of the K2K experiment. After cuts, 210000 secondary tracks reconstructed in the forward spectrometer were used in this analysis. The results are given for secondaries within a momentum range from 0.75 GeV/c to 6.5 GeV/c, and within an angular range from 30 mrad to 210 mrad. The absolute normalization was performed using prescaled beam triggers counting protons on target. The overall scale of the cross-section is known to better than 6%, while the average point-to-point error is 8.2%.

6 data tables

Table 1

Double differential PI+ production cross section in the angular range 30 to 60 mrad.. Errors shown are point-to-point only.

Table 2

Double differential PI+ production cross section in the angular range 60 to 90 mrad.. Errors shown are point-to-point only.

Table 3

Double differential PI+ production cross section in the angular range 90 to 120 mrad.. Errors shown are point-to-point only.

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Forward K+ production in subthreshold p A collisions at 1.0-GeV.

The ANKE collaboration Koptev, V. ; Buescher, Markus ; Junghans, H. ; et al.

Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 022301, 2001.

Inspire Record 556676 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.31765

K+ meson production in pA (A = C, Cu, Au) collisions has been studied using the ANKE spectrometer at an internal target position of the COSY-Juelich accelerator. The complete momentum spectrum of kaons emitted at forward angles, theta < 12 degrees, has been measured for a beam energy of T(p)=1.0 GeV, far below the free NN threshold of 1.58 GeV. The spectrum does not follow a thermal distribution at low kaon momenta and the larger momenta reflect a high degree of collectivity in the target nucleus.

3 data tables

Table 1

Double differential K+ production cross section for forward K+ angles < 12 degs. Statistical errors only.

Table 2

The invariant cross section for K+ production. Statistical errors only.

Table 3

Ratio of K+ production cross sections for CU/C and AU/C.