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Measurement of the production cross-section of positive pions in the collision of 8.9 GeV/c protons on beryllium

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The double-differential production cross-section of positive pions, \(d^2\sigma^{\pi^{+}}/d pd\Omega\), measured in the HARP experiment is presented. The incident particles are 8.9 GeV/c protons directed onto a beryllium target with a thickness of 5% of a nuclear interaction length. The measured cross-section has a direct impact on the prediction of neutrino fluxes for the MiniBooNE and SciBooNE experiments at Fermilab. After cuts, 13 million protons on target produced about 96000 reconstructed secondary tracks which were used in this analysis. Cross-section results are presented in the kinematic range 0.75 GeV/c≤pπ≤ 6.5 GeV/c and 30 mrad≤θπ≤ 210 mrad in the laboratory frame.

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  1. Università degli Studi e Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy

    The HARP Collaboration M.G. Catanesi & E. Radicioni

  2. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK

    R. Edgecock, M. Ellis, S. Robbins & F.J.P. Soler

  3. Institut für Physik, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    C. Gößling

  4. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR Dubna, Dubna, Russia

    S. Bunyatov, G. Chelkov, D. Dedovitch, M. Gostkin, A. Guskov, D. Khartchenko, A. Krasnoperov, Z. Kroumchtein, Y. Nefedov, B. Popov, V. Serdiouk, V. Tereshchenko & A. Zhemchugov

  5. Università degli Studi e Sezione INFN, Ferrara, Italy

    E. Di Capua & G. Vidal-Sitjes

  6. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    A. Artamonov, P. Arce, S. Giani, S. Gilardoni, P. Gorbunov, A. Grant, A. Grossheim, P. Gruber, V. Ivanchenko, A. Kayis-Topaksu, J. Panman, I. Papadopoulos, J. Pasternak, E. Tcherniaev, I. Tsukerman, R. Veenhof, C. Wiebusch & P. Zucchelli

  7. Section de Physique, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

    A. Blondel, S. Borghi, M. Campanelli, M.C. Morone, G. Prior & R. Schroeter

  8. Institut für Physik, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    R. Engel & C. Meurer

  9. University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

    I. Kato

  10. Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro dell’ INFN, Legnaro, Italy

    U. Gastaldi

  11. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    G.B. Mills

  12. Institut de Physique Nucléaire, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    J.S. Graulich & G. Grégoire

  13. Università degli Studi e Sezione INFN Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    M. Bonesini, A. De Min, F. Ferri,  M. Paganoni & F. Paleari

  14. Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia

    M. Kirsanov

  15. P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    A. Bagulya, V. Grichine & N. Polukhina

  16. Università “Federico II” e Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy

    V. Palladino

  17. Columbia University, New York, USA

    L. Coney & D. Schmitz

  18. Nuclear and Astrophysics Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    G. Barr, A. De Santo, C. Pattison & K. Zuber

  19. Università degli Studi e Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy

    F. Bobisut, D. Gibin, A. Guglielmi & M. Mezzetto

  20. LPNHE, Universités de Paris VI et VII, Paris, France

    J. Dumarchez & F. Vannucci

  21. Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia

    V. Ammosov, V. Koreshev, A. Semak & V. Zaets

  22. Università “La Sapienza” e Sezione INFN Roma I, Roma, Italy

    U. Dore

  23. Università degli Studi e Sezione INFN Roma III, Roma, Italy

    D. Orestano, F. Pastore, A. Tonazzo & L. Tortora

  24. Dept. of Physics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    C. Booth, C. Buttar, P. Hodgson & L. Howlett

  25. Faculty of Physics, St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria

    M. Bogomilov, M. Chizhov, D. Kolev & R. Tsenov

  26. Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    S. Piperov & P. Temnikov

  27. Università degli Studi e Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy

    M. Apollonio, P. Chimenti, G. Giannini & G. Santin

  28. Instituto de Física Corpuscular, IFIC, CSIC and Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    J. Burguet-Castell, A. Cervera-Villanueva, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, J. Martín-Albo, P. Novella, M. Sorel & A. Tornero

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    M. Ellis

  30. Codian Ltd., Langley, Slough, UK

    S. Robbins

  31. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    F.J.P. Soler

  32. Imperial College, University of London, London, UK

    G. Vidal-Sitjes

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  36. University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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  39. III Phys. Inst. B, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    C. Wiebusch

  40. INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, Italy

    P. Zucchelli

  41. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    S. Borghi

  42. Univerity of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

    M.C. Morone

  43. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

    G. Prior & J.S. Graulich

  44. Section de Physique, Université de Genève, Geneve, Switzerland

    A. De Santo

  45. Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK

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  46. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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Catanesi, T., Radicioni, E., Edgecock, R. et al. Measurement of the production cross-section of positive pions in the collision of 8.9 GeV/c protons on beryllium. Eur. Phys. J. C 52, 29–53 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0382-8

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