51. Measurement of negatively charged pion spectra in inelastic p+p interactions at $$p_{\mathbf {lab}}= $$ p lab = 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/cNA61/SHINE Collaboration
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M.B. Golubeva, Gyorgy Vesztergombi, H. Ströbele, Y. Ali, K. Sakashita, M. Posiadala, M. Kirejczyk, M. Savic, J. Blümer, F.F. Guber, E. Rondio, R. Sipos, A. S. Kapoyannis, N. G. Antoniou, Markus Roth, T. Nakadaira, L. Zambelli, A. Grzeszczuk, M. Nirkko, D. Kolev, André Rubbia, E. Kaptur, J. Puzović, A. Wilczek, A. Haesler, Vladimir Vechernin, Ludwik Turko, M. Tada, S. Kowalski, J. Pluta, M. Słodkowski, Vincent Marin, D. Manić, J. Brzychczyk, P. Staszel, T. Tolyhi, E. Skrzypczak, A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc, R. Tsenov, H. J. Mathes, Antonio Ereditato, Maciej Rybczyński, T. Antičić, S. Murphy, T. Drozhzhova, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, A. Marcinek, Anne Robert, Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt, N. Abgrall, T. Susa, M. Unger, Stuart Kleinfelder, Antoni Aduszkiewicz, A. Sadovsky, C. Pistillo, Z. Majka, Andras Laszlo, S. Puławski, P. Kovesarki, A. Bravar, T. Hasegawa, Tobiasz Czopowicz, F. Bay, V. Tereshchenko, G. Pálla, M. Ravonel, Zbigniew Wlodarczyk, J. Stepaniak, S. Debieux, Marek Gaździcki, A. Redij, J. Dumarchez, H. Dembinski, Alexey Krasnoperov, Alexander Malakhov, D. Joković, V. P. Kondratiev, D. Kielczewska, W. Peryt, Leonid Vinogradov, Dieter Røhrich, D. Sgalaberna, A. Ivashkin, Katarzyna Grebieszkow, Alexey Kurepin, Z. Fodor, M. Szuba, A. Rustamov, B. Maksiak, V. I. Kolesnikov, P. Seyboth, M. Bogomilov, W. Rauch, G. Stefanek, M. Hierholzer, S.N. Igolkin, W. Dominik, G. A. Feofilov, A. Blondel, N. Davis, T. Sekiguchi, T. Paul, A. Korzenev, B. A. Popov, Dag Larsen, Kreso Kadija, T. Matulewicz, O. Petukhov, K. Dynowski, T. Palczewski, W. Zipper, Jan Kisiel, O. Busygina, Darko Veberič, T. Kobayashi, S. Di Luise, M. Vassiliou, Tivadar Kiss, M. Shibata, P. Christakoglou, V. V. Lyubushkin, Apostolos Panagiotou, G. L. Melkumov, O. Wyszyński, S.A. Bunyatov, R. Płaneta, St Mrówczyński, R. Idczak, B. Baatar, Ralf Ulrich, A. Fulop, V. Matveev, K. Schmidt, Fotis K. Diakonos, R. Engel, K. Nishikawa, and K. Marton
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Large Hadron Collider ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Nuclear Theory ,Hadron ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Deconfinement ,Super Proton Synchrotron ,Pion ,0103 physical sciences ,Transverse mass ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Rapidity ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,NA49 experiment - Abstract
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 ($\sqrt{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.
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- 2014