Measurements of production and inelastic cross sections for p+C, p+Be, and p+Al at 60 GeV/c and p+C and p+Be at 120 GeV/c

This paper presents measurements of production cross sections and inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: 60 GeV=c protons with C, Be, Al targets and 120 GeV=c protons with C and Be targets. The analysis is performed using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. First measurements are obtained using protons at 120 GeV=c, while the results for protons at 60 GeV=c are compared with previously published measurements. These interaction cross section measurements are critical inputs for neutrino flux prediction in current and future accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino experiments.Authors:A. Aduszkiewicz,15 E. V. Andronov,21 T. Antićić,3 V. Babkin,19 M. Baszczyk,13 S. Bhosale,10 A. Blondel,23 M. Bogomilov,2 A. Brandin,20 A. Bravar,23 W. Bryliński,17 J. Brzychczyk,12 M. Buryakov,19 O. Busygina,18 A. Bzdak,13 H. Cherif,6 M. Ćirković,22 M. Csanad,7 J. Cybowska,17 T. Czopowicz,17 A. Damyanova,23 N. Davis,10 M. Deliyergiyev,9 M. Deveaux,6 A. Dmitriev,19 W. Dominik,15 P. Dorosz,13 J. Dumarchez,4 R. Engel,5 G. A. Feofilov,21 L. Fields,24 Z. Fodor,7,16 A. Garibov,1 M. Gaździcki,6,9 O. Golosov,20 M. Golubeva,18 K. Grebieszkow,17 F. Guber,18 A. Haesler,23 S. N. Igolkin,21 S. Ilieva,2 A. Ivashkin,18 S. R. Johnson,26 K. Kadija,3 E. Kaptur,14 N. Kargin,20 E. Kashirin,20 M. Kiełbowicz,10 V. A. Kireyeu,19 V. Klochkov,6 V. I. Kolesnikov,19 D. Kolev,2 A. Korzenev,23 V. N. Kovalenko,21 K. Kowalik,11 S. Kowalski,14 M. Koziel,6 A. Krasnoperov,19 W. Kucewicz,13 M. Kuich,15 A. Kurepin,18 D. Larsen,12 A. László,7 T. V. Lazareva,21 M. Lewicki,16 K. Łojek,12 B. Łysakowski,14 V. V. Lyubushkin,19 M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska,17 Z. Majka,12 B. Maksiak,11 A. I. Malakhov,19 A. Marchionni,24 A. Marcinek,10 A. D. Marino,26 K. Marton,7 H.-J. Mathes,5 T. Matulewicz,15 V. Matveev,19 G. L. Melkumov,19 A. O. Merzlaya,12 B. Messerly,27 Ł. Mik,13 G. B. Mills,25 S. Morozov,18,20 S. Mrówczyński,9 Y. Nagai ,26 M. Naskręt,16 V. Ozvenchuk,10 V. Paolone,27 M. Pavin,4,3 O. Petukhov,18 R. Płaneta,12 P. Podlaski,15 B. A. Popov,19,4 B. Porfy,7 M. Posiadała-Zezula,15 D. S. Prokhorova,21 D. Pszczel,11 S. Puławski,14 J. Puzović,22 M. Ravonel,23 R. Renfordt,6 E. Richter-Wąs,12 D. Röhrich,8 E. Rondio,11 M. Roth,5 B. T. Rumberger,26 M. Rumyantsev,19 A. Rustamov,1,6 M. Rybczynski,9 A. Rybicki,10 A. Sadovsky,18 K. Schmidt,14 I. Selyuzhenkov,20 A. Yu. Seryakov,21 P. Seyboth,9 M. Słodkowski,17 A. Snoch,6 P. Staszel,12 G. Stefanek,9 J. Stepaniak,11 M. Strikhanov,20 H. Ströbele,6 T. Šuša,3 A. Taranenko,20 A. Tefelska,17 D. Tefelski,17 V. Tereshchenko,19 A. Toia,6 R. Tsenov,2 L. Turko,16 R. Ulrich,5 M. Unger,5 F. F. Valiev,21 D. Veberič,5 V. V. Vechernin,21 A. Wickremasinghe,27 Z.Włodarczyk,9 A.Wojtaszek-Szwarc,9 K. Wójcik,14 O.Wyszyński,12 L. Zambelli,4 E. D. Zimmerman,26 and R. Zwaska24 (NA61/SHINE Collaboration) 1National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan 2Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria 3Rud¯er Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia 4LPNHE, University of Paris VI and VII, Paris, France 5Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany 6University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany 7Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 8University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 9Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland 10Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland 11National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland 12Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland 13AGH—University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland 14University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 15University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 16University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland 17Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland 18Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia 19Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia 20National Research Nuclear University (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia 21St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia 22University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 23University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 24Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA 25Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA 26University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA 27University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

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