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.
New data on the production of charged kaons 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 kaons are identified by energy loss in a large TPC tracking system. Inclusive invariant cross sections are obtained in intervals from 0 to 1.7 GeV/c in transverse momentum and from 0 to 0.5 in Feynman x. Using these data as a reference, a new evaluation of the energy dependence of kaon production, including neutral kaons, is conducted over a range from 3 GeV to
collider energies.
New results on the production of charged pions 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. Pions are identified by energy loss measurement in a large TPC tracking system which covers a major fraction of the production phase space. Inclusive invariant cross sections are given on a grid of nearly 300 bins per charge over intervals from 0 to 2 GeV/c in transverse momentum and from 0 to 0.85 in Feynman x. The results are compared to existing data in overlapping energy ranges.
Preliminary results of the multidimensional two-particle Bose-Einstein correlation analysis of negatively charged particles are presented for Pb+Pb collisions at a beam energy of 158 GeV per nucleon. ...The data show the characteristics of a dynamic pion source which mainly expands along the collision axis in a non boost invariant way. Evidence for a finite duration of the particle emission process is found. The dependence of the Coulomb correlation function for
π
+
π
− pairs on the source size is discussed. The analysis of the higher order correlation integrals shows that multiparticle correlations are dominated by two body correlations.
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.
This paper reports measurements of two-pion femtoscopic correlations in Be+Be collisions at a beam momentum of 150
A
GeV
/
c
(energy available in the center-of-mass system for nucleon pair
s
NN
=
...16.84
GeV) by the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator. The obtained momentum space correlation functions can be well described by a Lévy distributed source model. The transverse mass dependence of the Lévy source parameters is presented, and their possible theoretical interpretations are discussed. The results show that the Lévy exponent
α
is approximately constant as a function of
m
T
, and far from both the Gaussian case of
α
=
2
or the conjectured value at the critical endpoint,
α
=
0.5
. The radius scale parameter
R
shows a slight decrease in
m
T
, which can be explained as a signature of transverse flow. Finally, an approximately constant trend of the intercept parameter
λ
as a function of
m
T
was observed, similar to previous NA44 S + Pb results (obtained with a Gaussian approximation, but unlike RHIC results).
We present experimental results on inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of negatively charged pions 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). The measurements were performed using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN super proton synchrotron. Two-dimensional spectra are determined in terms of rapidity and transverse momentum. Their properties such as the width of rapidity distributions and the inverse slope parameter of transverse mass spectra are extracted and their collision energy dependences are presented. The results on inelastic p+p interactions are compared with the corresponding data on central Pb+Pb collisions measured by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. The results presented in this paper are part of the NA61/SHINE ion program devoted to the study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter. They are required for interpretation of results on nucleus–nucleus and proton–nucleus collisions.
Interaction cross sections and charged pion spectra in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c were measured with the large-acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. These data are required to improve ...predictions of the neutrino flux for the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. A set of data collected during the first NA61/SHINE run in 2007 with an isotropic graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length was used for the analysis. The measured p+C inelastic and production cross sections are 257.2 {+-} 1.9 {+-} 8.9 and 229.3 {+-} 1.9 {+-} 9.0 mb, respectively. Inclusive production cross sections for negatively and positively charged pions are presented as functions of laboratory momentum in ten intervals of the laboratory polar angle covering the range from 0 up to 420 mrad. The spectra are compared with predictions of several hadron production models.
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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