Measurements of $π^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $K^0_S$, $Λ$ and proton production in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/$c$ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS
Creators: name: Abgrall, N.
name: Aduszkiewicz, A.
name: Ali, Y.
name: Andronov, E.
name: Antićić, T.
name: Antoniou, N.
name: Baatar, B.
name: Bay, F.
name: Blondel, A.
name: Blümer, J.
name: Bogomilov, M.
name: Brandin, A.
name: Bravar, A.
name: Brzychczyk, J.
name: Bunyatov, S. A.
name: Busygina, O.
name: Christakoglou, P.
name: Czopowicz, T.
name: Damyanova, A.
name: Davis, N.
name: Debieux, S.
name: Dembinski, H.
name: Deveaux, M.
name: Diakonos, F.
name: Di Luise, S.
name: Dominik, W.
name: Drozhzhova, T.
name: Dumarchez, J.
name: Dynowski, K.
name: Engel, R.
name: Ereditato, A.
name: Feofilov, G. A.
name: Fodor, Z.
name: Gaździcki, M.
name: Golubeva, M.
name: Grebieszkow, K.
name: Grzeszczuk, A.
name: Guber, F.
name: Haesler, A.
name: Hasegawa, T.
name: Herve, A.
name: Hierholzer, M.
name: Igolkin, S.
name: Ivashkin, A.
name: Joković, D.
name: Johnson, S. R.
name: Kadija, K.
name: Kapoyannis, A.
name: Kaptur, E.
name: Kiełczewska, D.
name: Kisiel, J.
name: Kobayashi, T.
name: Kolesnikov, V. I.
name: Kolev, D.
name: Kondratiev, V. P.
name: Korzenev, A.
name: Kowalik, K.
name: Kowalski, S.
name: Koziel, M.
name: Krasnoperov, A.
name: Kuich, M.
name: Kurepin, A.
name: Larsen, D.
name: László, A.
name: Lewicki, M.
name: Lyubushkin, V. V.
name: Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M.
name: Majka, Z.
name: Maksiak, B.
name: Malakhov, A. I.
name: Marchionni, A.
name: Manić, D.
name: Marcinek, A.
name: Marino, A. D.
name: Marton, K.
name: Mathes, H. -J.
name: Matulewicz, T.
name: Matveev, V.
name: Melkumov, G. L.
name: Messerly, B.
name: Mills, G. B.
name: Morozov, S.
name: Mrówczyński, S.
name: Murphy, S.
name: Nagai, Y.
name: Nakadaira, T.
name: Naskret, M.
name: Nirkko, M.
name: Nishikawa, K.
name: Palczewski, T.
name: Panagiotou, A. D.
name: Paolone, V.
name: Pavin, M.
name: Petukhov, O.
name: Pistillo, C.
name: Płaneta, R.
name: Pluta, J.
name: Popov, B. A.
name: Posiadała-Zezula, M.
name: Puławski, S.
name: Puzović, J.
name: Rauch, W.
name: Ravonel, M.
name: Redij, A.
name: Renfordt, R.
name: Richter-Was, E.
name: Robert, A.
name: Röhrich, D.
name: Rondio, E.
name: Roth, M.
name: Rubbia, A.
name: Rumberger, B. T.
name: Rustamov, A.
name: Rybczynski, M.
name: Sadovsky, A.
name: Sakashita, K.
name: Sarnecki, R.
name: Schmidt, K.
name: Sekiguchi, T.
name: Selyuzhenkov, I.
name: Seryakov, A.
name: Seyboth, P.
name: Sgalaberna, D.
name: Shibata, M.
name: Słodkowski, M.
name: Staszel, P.
name: Stefanek, G.
name: Stepaniak, J.
name: Ströbele, H.
name: Šuša, T.
name: Szuba, M.
name: Tada, M.
name: Taranenko, A.
name: Tefelska, A.
name: Tefelski, D.
name: Tereshchenko, V.
name: Tsenov, R.
name: Turko, L.
name: Ulrich, R.
name: Unger, M.
name: Vassiliou, M.
name: Veberič, D.
name: Vechernin, V. V.
name: Vesztergombi, G.
name: Vinogradov, L.
name: Wilczek, A.
name: Wlodarczyk, Z.
name: Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A.
name: Wyszyński, O.
name: Yarritu, K.
name: Zambelli, L.
name: Zimmerman, E. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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 $π^\pm$, $K^\pm$, p, $K^0_S$ and $Λ$ 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.
description: v1 corresponds to the preprint CERN-PH-EP-2015-278; v2 matches the final published version