1. Measurement of the production cross section of 31 GeV/c protons on carbon via beam attenuation in a 90-cm-long target
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Piotr Dorosz, H. Ströbele, Andrzej Rybicki, V.M. Golovatyuk, Mate Csanad, G. A. Feofilov, Tatiana Lazareva, M. Unger, S. Bhosale, A. Tefelska, Miroslaw Marek Kielbowicz, Maciej Rybczyński, T. Antičić, O. Busygina, M. Lewicki, W. Bryliński, Michael Deveaux, Tobiasz Czopowicz, M. Rumyantsev, A. Garibov, V. Babkin, H. J. Mathes, J. Brzychczyk, B. A. Popov, M. Słodkowski, S. Ilieva, J. Dumarchez, P. Staszel, B. Porfy, B. T. Rumberger, Antoni Aduszkiewicz, E. Rondio, K. Wojcik, N. Kargin, V. A. Kireyeu, M. Ravonel, J. Stepaniak, T. Susa, A. Dmitriev, Markus Roth, O. Golosov, K. Schmidt, Alberica Toia, R. Płaneta, A. Damyanova, Z. Majka, K. Łojek, A. Marcinek, F.F. Guber, O. Petukhov, Vitalii Ozvenchuk, A. Ivashkin, S.N. Igolkin, W. Dominik, A. V. Brandin, S. R. Johnson, D. Kolev, D. Pszczel, B. Maksiak, M. Kuich, S. Puławski, V. Tereshchenko, Sergey V. Morozov, Evgeny Andronov, Alexey Kurepin, Ilya Selyuzhenkov, A. Zaitsev, A. Korzenev, J. Puzović, D. Tefelski, Samrangy Sadhu, Z. Fodor, M. Ćirković, Ralf Ulrich, A. O. Merzlaya, A. Wickremasinghe, M.B. Golubeva, Andras Laszlo, T. Matulewicz, B. Kozłowski, F.F. Valiev, M. Posiadala-Zezula, A. Taranenko, K. K. Allison, M. Strikhanov, Ł. Mik, Michal Koziel, Darko Veberič, Dieter Røhrich, M. Naskręt, Katarzyna Grebieszkow, Marek Gaździcki, M. Bogomilov, G. Stefanek, M. Buryakov, D. S. Prokhorova, Dag Larsen, O. Wyszyński, B. Messerly, A. Haesler, M. Pavin, V. Klochkov, Vladimir Kovalenko, Vladimir Vechernin, R. Zwaska, Wojciech Kucewicz, S. Kowalski, E. Kashirin, V. I. Kolesnikov, J. Cybowska, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, V. V. Lyubushkin, G. L. Melkumov, Mateusz Baszczyk, P. Podlaski, V. Matveev, A. Blondel, R. Engel, K. Marton, A. Yu. Seryakov, V. Paolone, A. Bravar, E. D. Zimmerman, R. Tsenov, A. D. Marino, Alexander Malakhov, D. Uzhva, Alexey Krasnoperov, Y. Nagai, A. Sadovsky, A. Acharya, A. Rustamov, H. Adhikary, Ludwik Turko, M. Deliyergiyev, P. Seyboth, N. Davis, L. Fields, Kreso Kadija, Adam Bzdak, H. Cherif, and Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt
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Physics ,Spectrometer ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Attenuation ,Hadron ,Flux ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Nuclear physics ,Cross section (physics) ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Neutrino oscillation ,Beam (structure) - Abstract
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 σ$_{prod}$ = 227.6 ± 0.8(stat)$\frac{+1.9}{−3.2}$(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 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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- 2021