New data on the production of protons, anti-protons and neutrons in p+p interactions are presented. The data come from a sample of 4.8 million inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the ...CERN SPS at 158 GeV/c beam momentum. The charged baryons are identified by energy loss measurement in a large TPC tracking system. Neutrons are detected in a forward hadronic calorimeter. Inclusive invariant cross sections are obtained in intervals from 0 to 1.9 GeV/c (0 to 1.5 GeV/c) in transverse momentum and from −0.05 to 0.95 (−0.05 to 0.4) in Feynman
x
for protons (anti-protons), respectively.
p
T
integrated neutron cross sections are given in the interval from 0.1 to 0.9 in Feynman
x
. The data are compared to a wide sample of existing results in the SPS and ISR energy ranges as well as to proton and neutron measurements from HERA and RHIC.
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Measurements of inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of
π
±
, K
±
, p and
p
¯
produced in inelastic p + p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158
GeV
/
c
(
s
=
...6.3, 7.7, 8.8, 12.3 and 17.3
GeV
, respectively) were performed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer. Spectra are presented as function of rapidity and transverse momentum and are compared to predictions of current models. The measurements serve as the baseline in the NA61/SHINE study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter.
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Hard loop approach to anisotropic systems Mrówczyński, Stanisław; Thoma, Markus H.
Physical review. D, Particles and fields,
08/2000, Volume:
62, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
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Measurements of the
π
±
,
K
±
, and proton double differential yields emitted from the surface of the 90-
cm
-long carbon target (T2K replica) were performed for the incoming
31
GeV
/
c
protons with ...the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS using data collected during 2010 run. The double differential
π
±
yields were measured with increased precision compared to the previously published NA61/SHINE results, while the
K
±
and proton yields were obtained for the first time. A strategy for dealing with the dependence of the results on the incoming proton beam profile is proposed. The purpose of these measurements is to reduce significantly the (anti)neutrino flux uncertainty in the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment by constraining the production of (anti)neutrino ancestors coming from the T2K target.
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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
±
,
K
±
, p,
K
S
0
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.
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The experiment of the NA61/SHINE Collaboration at the CERN SPS is performing a unique study of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter by varying collision energy and nuclear mass number of ...colliding nuclei. In central Pb + Pb collisions, the experiment of the NA49 Collaboration found structures in the energy dependence of several observables in the energy range of the CERN SPS that had been predicted for the transition to a deconfined phase. New measurements of the NA61/SHINE Collaboration find intriguing similarities in $p + p$ interactions for which no deconfinement transition is expected at the energies of the SPS. Possible implications will be discussed.
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The results of a numerical simulation, performed to check the validity of a method developed for reconstruction of concentration distributions truncated by the detection limit, are reported in the ...context of trace element analysis in biomedical samples by total-reflection X-ray fluorescence. This method, by correcting a distribution over the whole range of concentrations in a population of samples, restores a number of measurements reporting results below the detection limit. We show by Monte Carlo simulations, assuming lognormal distributions to describe both the concentrations measured as well as the detection limits in the biomedical samples, that the method developed is accurate to within 5% for most typical situations. Moreover, we demonstrate that the factor limiting the accuracy of the correction is the number of measurements, not the correction procedure itself. We have found in simulations that the reconstruction of a concentration distribution, for a typical population size of
N=100, is possible when the concentrations are measured only in 20–30% of samples. On the other hand, we show that by ignoring the truncation of a concentration distribution by the detection limit, the results can be systematically biased by as much as 50%. The method developed is applied to the analysis of trace elements in human breast tissue samples by total-reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF). The results are also discussed in terms of the size of the population studied.
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