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1. $K_S^0$ meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 31, 40 and 80 GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

Author: Abgrall, N., Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antičić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Baszczyk, M., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brylinski, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gazdzicki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kitagawa, H., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morawiec, A., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nishimori, S., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozplochowski, L., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Swiderski, L., Szewinski, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszynski, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of $K_S^0$ meson production via its $\pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ decay mode in inelastic $\textit{p+p}$ interactions at incident projectile momenta of 31, 40 and 80 GeV/$c$ ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7, 8.8$ and $12.3$ GeV, respectively) are presented. The data were recorded by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Double-differential distributions were obtained in transverse momentum and rapidity. The mean multiplicities of $K_S^0$ mesons were determined to be $(5.95 \pm 0.19 (stat) \pm 0.22 (sys)) \times 10^{-2}$ at 31 GeV/$c$, $(7.61 \pm 0.13 (stat) \pm 0.31 (sys)) \times 10^{-2}$ at 40 GeV/$c$ and $(11.58 \pm 0.12 (stat) \pm 0.37 (sys)) \times 10^{-2}$ at 80 GeV/$c$. The results on $K^{0}_{S}$ production are compared with model calculations (Epos1.99, SMASH 2.0 and PHSD) as well as with published data from other experiments., Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2106.07535
Published: 2024

2. Search for a critical point of strongly-interacting matter in central $^{40}$Ar +$^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$-75$A$ GeV/$c$ beam momentum

Author: Collaboration, The NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Baszczyk, M., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kitagawa, H., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morawiec, A., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Świderski, Ł., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The critical point of strongly interacting matter is searched for at the CERN SPS by the NA61/SHINE experiment in central $^{40}$Ar +$^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$, 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, and 75$A$ GeV/$c$. The dependence of the second-order scaled factorial moments of proton multiplicity distributions on the number of subdivisions in transverse momentum space is measured. The intermittency analysis uses statistically independent data sets for every subdivision in transverse and cumulative-transverse momentum variables. The results obtained do not indicate the searched intermittent pattern. An upper limit on the fraction of correlated protons and the intermittency index is obtained based on a comparison with the Power-law Model., Comment: 38 pages, 20 figures
Published: 2024

3. Measurements of higher-order cumulants of multiplicity and net-electric charge distributions in inelastic proton-proton interactions by NA61/SHINE

Author: NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Borucka, A., Brandin, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Ćirković, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Olivier, A., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Reyna-Ortiz, V. Z., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Rybka, D., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Świderski, Ł., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vitiuk, O., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Witek, K., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zherebtsova, E., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: This paper presents the energy dependence of multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in p+p interactions at beam momenta 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158 GeV/c. Results are corrected for the experimental biases and quantified with the use of cumulants and factorial cumulants. Cumulant ratios are an essential tool in the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter in heavy ion collisions. Measurements performed in p+p interactions provide a vital baseline estimation in these studies. The measured signals are compared with the string hadronic models EPOS1.99 and FTFP-BERT., Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures. The version to be published in Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2023

4. Evidence for an excess of charged over neutral $K$ meson production in high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Brandin, A., Brylinski, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Cirkovic, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gazdzicki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nishimori, S., Olivier, A., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzovic, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Rybka, D., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Swiderski, Ł., Szewinski, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vitiuk, O., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Witek, K., Wójcik, K., Wyszynski, O., Zaitsev, A., Zherebtsova, E., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Collisions of atomic nuclei at relativistic velocities produce new particles, predominantly mesons containing one valence quark and one valence anti-quark. These particles are produced in strong interactions, which preserve an approximate symmetry between up ($u$) and down ($d$) quarks. In the case of $K$ meson production, if this symmetry were exact, it would result in equal numbers of charged ($K^+$ and $K^-$) and neutral ($K^0$ and $\overline K^0$) mesons in the final state. In this Letter, we report a measurement of the relative abundance of charged over neutral $K$ meson production in collisions of argon and scandium nuclei at a center-of-mass energy of 11.9 GeV per nucleon pair. We find that production of $\mathit{K^+}$ and $\mathit{K^-}$ mesons at mid-rapidity is $(18.4\pm 6.1)\%$ higher than that of the neutral $K$ mesons. The origin of this unexpected excess remains to be elucidated., Comment: The paper includes updates based on the final results of $K^+$ and $K^-$ yields published in Eur. Phys. J.C 84 (2024) 4, 416
Published: 2023

5. Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ spectra in $^{40}$Ar+$^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$ to 150$A$ GeV/$c$

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Baszczyk, M., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Ćirković, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kitagawa, H., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morawiec, A., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nishimori, S., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Swiderski, L., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron studies the onset of deconfinement in strongly interacting matter through a beam energy scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei of varied sizes. This paper presents results on inclusive double-differential spectra, transverse momentum and rapidity distributions and mean multiplicities of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ produced in $^{40}$Ar+$^{45}$Sc collisions at beam momenta of 13$A$, 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, 75$A$ and 150$A$~\GeVc. The analysis uses the 10\% most central collisions, where the observed forward energy defines centrality. The energy dependence of the $K^\pm$/$\pi^\pm$ ratios as well as of inverse slope parameters of the $K^\pm$ transverse mass distributions are placed in between those found in inelastic $p$+$p$ and central Pb+Pb collisions. The results obtained here establish a system-size dependence of hadron production properties that so far cannot be explained either within statistical or dynamical models.
Published: 2023
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6. Measurements of $\pi^+$, $\pi^-$, $p$, $\bar{p}$, $K^+$ and $K^-$ production in 120 GeV/$c$ p + C interactions

Author: Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Baszczyk, M., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Ćirković, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, 1 O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kitagawa, H., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, 5T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Mills, G., Morawiec, A., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Świderski, Ł., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: This paper presents multiplicity measurements of charged hadrons produced in 120 GeV/$c$ proton-carbon interactions. The measurements were made using data collected at the NA61/SHINE experiment during two different data-taking periods, with increased phase space coverage in the second configuration due to the addition of new subdetectors. Particle identification via $dE/dx$ was employed to obtain double-differential production multiplicities of $\pi^+$, $\pi^-$, $p$, $\bar{p}$, $K^+$ and $K^-$. These measurements are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in intervals of laboratory polar angle covering the range from 0 to 450 mrad. They provide crucial inputs for current and future long-baseline neutrino experiments, where they are used to estimate the initial neutrino flux.
Published: 2023

7. Search for the critical point of strongly-interacting matter in ${}^{40}$Ar + ${}^{45}$Sc collisions at 150A GeV/c using scaled factorial moments of protons

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Baszczyk, M., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Christakoglou, P., Ćirković, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Diakonos, F., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kitagawa, H., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morawiec, A., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Ozvenchuk, V., Panagiotou, A. D., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Swiderski, L., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Vassiliou, M., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The critical point of dense, strongly interacting matter is searched for at the CERN SPS in ${}^{40}$Ar + ${}^{45}$Sc collisions at 150A GeV/c. The dependence of second-order scaled factorial moments of proton multiplicity distribution on the number of subdivisions of transverse momentum space is measured. The intermittency analysis is performed using both transverse momentum and cumulative transverse momentum. For the first time, statistically independent data sets are used for each subdivision number. The obtained results do not indicate any statistically significant intermittency pattern. An upper limit on the fraction of critical proton pairs and the power of the correlation function is obtained based on a comparison with the Power-law Model developed for this purpose., Comment: 28 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2023

8. Two-pion femtoscopic correlations in Be+Be collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} = 16.84$ GeV measured by the NA61/SHINE at CERN

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Baszczyk, M., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Ćirković, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kitagawa, H., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morawiec, A., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Świderski, Ł., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper reports measurements of two-pion Bose-Einstein (HBT) correlations in Be+Be collisions at a beam momentum of 150$A\,\mbox{GeV}/\textit{c}$ by the $\mbox{NA61/SHINE}$ experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator. The obtained momentum space correlation functions can be well described by a L\'evy distributed source model. The transverse mass dependence of the L\'evy source parameters is presented, and their possible theoretical interpretations are discussed. The results show that the L\'evy exponent $\alpha$ is approximately constant as a function of $m_{\rm{T}}$ , and far from both the Gaussian case of $\alpha = 2$ or the conjectured value at the critical endpoint, $\alpha = 0.5$. The radius scale parameter $R$ shows a slight decrease in $m_{\rm{T}}$, which can be explained as a signature of transverse flow. Finally, an approximately constant trend of the intercept parameter $\lambda$ as a function of $m_{\rm{T}}$ was observed, different from measurement results at RHIC.
Published: 2023
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9. A high-resolution pixel silicon Vertex Detector for open charm measurements with the \NASixtyOne spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: Aduszkiewicz, A., Bajda, M., Baszczyk, M., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Deveaux, M., Dorosz, P., Di Luise, S., Feofilov, G., Gazdzicki, M., Igolkin, S., Jabłoński, M., Kovalenko, V., Koziel, M., Kucewicz, W., Larsen, D., Lazareva, T., Łojek, K., Majka, Z., Martinengo, P., Merzlaya, A., Mik, L., Płaneta, R., Staszel, P., Suljic, M., Tefelski, D., and Vechernin, V.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The study of open charm meson production provides an efficient tool for the investigation of the properties of hot and dense matter formed in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The interpretation of the existing di-muon data from the CERN SPS suffers from a lack of knowledge on the mechanism and properties of the open charm particle production. Due to this, the heavy-ion programme of the \NASixtyOne experiment at the CERN SPS has been extended by precise measurements of charm hadrons with short lifetimes. A new Vertex Detector for measurements of the rare processes of open charm production in nucleus-nucleus collisions was designed to meet the challenges of track registration and high resolution in primary and secondary vertex reconstruction. A small-acceptance version of the vertex detector was installed in 2016 and tested with Pb+Pb collisions at 150\AGeVc. It was also operating during the physics data taking on Xe+La and Pb+Pb collisions at 150\AGeVc conducted in 2017 and 2018. This paper presents the detector design and construction, data calibration, event reconstruction, and analysis procedure., Comment: 13 pages, 21 figures, Fixed Acknowledgment
Published: 2023
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10. Measurements of $K^0_{\textrm{S}}$, $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ production in 120 GeV/$c$ p + C interactions

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Balkova, Y., Baszczyk, M., Battaglia, D., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Dembinski, H., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Haug, M., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kitagawa, H., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Mariş, I. C., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morawiec, A., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prado, R. R., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Ruprecht, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shiraishi, Y., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: This paper presents multiplicity measurements of $K^0_{\textrm{S}}$, $\Lambda$, and $\bar{\Lambda}$ produced in 120 GeV/$c$ proton-carbon interactions. The measurements were made using data collected at the NA61/SHINE experiment during two different periods. Decays of these neutral hadrons impact the measured $\pi^+$, $\pi^-$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ multiplicities in the 120 GeV/$c$ proton-carbon reaction, which are crucial inputs for long-baseline neutrino experiment predictions of neutrino beam flux. The double-differential multiplicities presented here will be used to more precisely measure charged-hadron multiplicities in this reaction, and to re-weight neutral hadron production in neutrino beam Monte Carlo simulations.
Published: 2022

11. Measurement of Hadron Production in $\pi^-$-C Interactions at 158 and 350 GeV/c with NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Balkova, Y., Baszczyk, M., Battaglia, D., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Dembinski, H., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Haug, M., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kitagawa, H., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Mariş, I. C., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morawiec, A., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prado, R. R., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumyantsev, M., Ruprecht, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shiraishi, Y., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present a measurement of the momentum spectra of $\pi^\pm$, K$^\pm$, p$^\pm$, $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$ and K$^{0}_{S}$ produced in interactions of negatively charged pions with carbon nuclei at beam momenta of 158 and 350 GeV/c. The total production cross sections are measured as well. The data were collected with the large-acceptance spectrometer of the fixed target experiment NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS. The obtained double-differential $p$-$p_T$ spectra provide a unique reference data set with unprecedented precision and large phase-space coverage to tune models used for the simulation of particle production in extensive air showers in which pions are the most numerous projectiles.
Published: 2022

12. $K^{*}(892)^0$ meson production in inelastic $p+p$ interactions at 40 and 80 GeV/$c$ beam momenta measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Arsene, I. -C., Baszczyk, M., Battagia, D., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bostan, N., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Koshio, J., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Matyja, A., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of $K^{*}(892)^0$ resonance production via its $K^{+}\pi^{-}$ decay mode in inelastic $p+p$ collisions at beam momenta 40 and 80 GeV/$c$ ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=8.8$ and 12.3 GeV) are presented. The data were recorded by the NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The \textit{template} method was used to extract the $K^{*}(892)^0$ signal. Transverse momentum and rapidity spectra were obtained. The mean multiplicities of $K^{*}(892)^0$ mesons were found to be $(35.1 \pm 1.3 \mathrm{(stat)} \pm 3.6 \mathrm{(sys)) \cdot 10^{-3}}$ at 40 GeV/$c$ and $(58.3 \pm 1.9 \mathrm{(stat)} \pm 4.9 \mathrm{(sys)) \cdot 10^{-3}}$ at 80 GeV/$c$. The NA61/SHINE results are compared with the EPOS1.99 and Hadron Resonance Gas models as well as with world data. The transverse mass spectra of $K^{*}(892)^0$ mesons and other particles previously reported by NA61/SHINE were fitted within the Blast-Wave model. The transverse flow velocities are close to 0.1--0.2 of the speed of light and are significantly smaller than the ones determined in heavy nucleus-nucleus interactions at the same beam momenta., Comment: version published in Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2021
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13. $K^{0}_{S}$ meson production in inelastic $\textit{p+p}$ interactions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

Author: Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antičić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blonde, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brylinski, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Enge, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gazdzicki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozie, M., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Naskret, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszynski, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The production of $K^{0}_{S}$ mesons in inelastic $\textit{p+p}$ collisions at beam momentum 158 GeV/c ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=17.3$ GeV) was measured with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Double-differential distributions were obtained in transverse momentum and rapidity. The mean multiplicity of $K^{0}_{S}$ was determined to be $0.162 \pm 0.001 (stat.) \pm 0.011 (sys.)$. The results on $K^{0}_{S}$ production are compared with model predictions (EPOS 1.99, SMASH 2.0, PHSD and UrQMD 3.4 models) as well as with published world data.
Published: 2021
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14. Measurements of $\Xi\left(1530\right)^{0}$ and $\overline{\Xi}\left(1530\right)^{0}$ production in proton-proton interactions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 17.3 GeV in the NA61/SHINE experiment

Author: Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, Y. Balkova M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Double-differential yields of $\Xi\left(1530\right)^{0}$ and $\overline{\Xi}\left(1530\right)^{0}$ resonances produced in \pp interactions were measured at a laboratory beam momentum of 158~\GeVc. This measurement is the first of its kind in \pp interactions below LHC energies. It was performed at the CERN SPS by the \NASixtyOne collaboration. Double-differential distributions in rapidity and transverse momentum were obtained from a sample of 26$\cdot$10$^6$ inelastic events. The spectra are extrapolated to full phase space resulting in mean multiplicity of $\Xi\left(1530\right)^{0}$ (6.73 $\pm$ 0.25 $\pm$ 0.67)$\times10^{-4}$ and $\overline{\Xi}\left(1530\right)^{0}$ (2.71 $\pm$ 0.18 $\pm$ 0.18)$\times10^{-4}$. The rapidity and transverse momentum spectra and mean multiplicities were compared to predictions of string-hadronic and statistical model calculations.
Published: 2021
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15. Spectra and mean multiplicities of $\pi^{-}$ in $central$ ${}^{40}$Ar+${}^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$, 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, 75$A$ and 150$A$ GeV/$c$ beam momenta measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Allison, K. K., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The physics goal of the strong interaction program of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is to study the phase diagram of hadronic matter by a scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei with various sizes at a set of energies covering the SPS energy range. This paper presents differential inclusive spectra of transverse momentum, transverse mass and rapidity of $\pi^{-}$ mesons produced in $central$ ${}^{40}$Ar+${}^{45}$Sc collisions at beam momenta of 13$A$, 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, 75$A$ and 150$A$ GeV/$c$. Energy and system size dependence of parameters of these distributions -- mean transverse mass, the inverse slope parameter of transverse mass spectra, width of the rapidity distribution and mean multiplicity -- are presented and discussed. Furthermore, the dependence of the ratio of the mean number of produced pions to the mean number of wounded nucleons on the collision energy was derived. The results are compared to predictions of several models., Comment: 40 pages, 24 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2008.06277; added the NA61/SHINE collaboration to authors and missing grant number
Published: 2021

16. Measurement of the production cross section of 31 GeV/$c$ protons on carbon via beam attenuation in a 90-cm-long target

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Aduszkiewicz, A., Allison, K. K., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wojcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The production cross section of 30.92 GeV/$c$ protons on carbon is measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS by means of beam attenuation in a copy (replica) of the 90-cm-long target of the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment. The employed method for direct production cross-section estimation minimizes model corrections for elastic and quasi-elastic interactions. The obtained production cross section is $\sigma_\mathrm{prod}~=~227.6~\pm~0.8\mathrm{(stat)}~_{-~3.2}^{+~1.9}\mathrm{(sys)}~{-~0.8}\mathrm{(mod)}$ mb. It is in agreement with previous NA61/SHINE results obtained with a thin carbon target, while providing improved precision with a total fractional uncertainty of less than 2$\%$. This direct measurement is performed to reduce the uncertainty on the T2K neutrino flux prediction associated with the re-weighting of the interaction rate of neutrino-yielding hadrons., Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2020
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17. Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ spectra in $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions at beam momenta from 19$A$ to 150$A$ GeV/$c$ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Aduszkiewicz, A., Allison, K. K., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) studies the onset of deconfinement in hadron matter by a scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei with various sizes at a set of energies covering the SPS energy range. This paper presents results on inclusive double-differential spectra, transverse momentum and rapidity distributions and mean multiplicities of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ produced in the 20$\%$ most $central$ $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions at beam momenta of 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, 75$A$ and 150$A$ GeV/$c$. The energy dependence of the $K^\pm$/$\pi^\pm$ ratios as well as of inverse slope parameters of the $K^\pm$ transverse mass distributions are close to those found in inelastic $p$+$p$ reactions. The new results are compared to the world data on $p$+$p$ and Pb+Pb collisions as well as to predictions of the EPOS, UrQMD, AMPT, PHSD and SMASH models., Comment: 52 pages, 38 figures
Published: 2020
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18. Measurements of multiplicity fluctuations of identified hadrons in inelastic proton-proton interactions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Aduszkiewicz, A., Allison, K. K., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wojcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of multiplicity fluctuations of identified hadrons produced in inelastic p+p interactions at 31, 40, 80, and 158~\GeVc beam momentum are presented. Three different measures of multiplicity fluctuations are used: the scaled variance $\omega$ and strongly intensive measures $\Sigma$ and $\Delta$. These fluctuation measures involve second and first moments of joint multiplicity distributions. Data analysis is performed using the Identity method which corrects for incomplete particle identification. Strongly intensive quantities are calculated in order to allow for a direct comparison to corresponding results on nucleus-nucleus collisions. The results for different hadron types are shown as a function of collision energy. A comparison with predictions of string-resonance Monte-Carlo models: Epos, Smash and Venus, is also presented., Comment: 32 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2020
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19. Measurements of $\pi^-$ production in $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions at beam momenta from 19$A$ to 150$A$GeV/$c$ in the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Acharya, A., Adhikary, H., Aduszkiewicz, A., Allison, K. K., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadhu, S., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The NA61/SHINE collaboration studies at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) the onset of deconfinement in hadronic matter by the measurement of particle production in collisions of nuclei with various sizes at a set of energies covering the SPS energy range. This paper presents results on inclusive double-differential spectra and mean multiplicities of $\pi^{-}$ mesons produced in the 5\% most \textit{central} $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions at beam momenta of 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, 75$A$ and 150$A$ GeV/$c$ obtained by the so-called $h^-$ method which does not require any particle identification. The shape of the transverse mass spectra differs from the shapes measured in central Pb+Pb collisions and inelastic p+p interactions. The normalized width of the rapidity distribution decreases with increasing collision energy and is in between the results for inelastic nucleon-nucleon and central Pb+Pb collisions. The mean multiplicity of pions per wounded nucleon in \textit{central} $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions is close to that in central Pb+Pb collisions up to 75$A$GeV/$c$. However, at the top SPS energy the result is close to the one for inelastic nucleon-nucleon interactions. The results are discussed in the context of predictions for the onset of deconfinement at the CERN SPS collision energies.
Published: 2020
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20. Measurements of $\Xi^{-}$ and $\overline{\Xi}^{+}$ production in proton-proton interactions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 17.3 GeV in the NA61/SHINE experiment

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The production of $\Xi(1321)^{-}$ and $\overline{\Xi}(1321)^{+}$ hyperons in inelastic p+p interactions is studied in a fixed target experiment at a beam momentum of 158 GeV/textit{c}. Double differential distributions in rapidity y and transverse momentum $p_{T}$ are obtained from a sample of 33M inelastic events. They allow to extrapolate the spectra to full phase space and to determine the mean multiplicity of both $\Xi^{-}$ and $\overline{\Xi}^{+}$. The rapidity and transverse momentum spectra are compared to transport model predictions. The $\Xi^{-}$ mean multiplicity in inelastic p+p interactions at 158~\GeVc is used to quantify the strangeness enhancement in A+A collisions at the same centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair.
Published: 2020

21. Two-particle correlations in azimuthal angle and pseudorapidity in central $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Uzhva, D., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A measurement of charged hadron pair correlations in two-dimensional $\Delta\eta\Delta\phi$ space is presented. The analysis is based on total 30 million central Be+Be collisions observed in the NA61/SHINE detector at the CERN SPS for incident beam momenta of 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, 75$A$, and 150$A$ GeV/$c$. Measurements were carried out for unlike-sign and like-sign charge hadron pairs independently. The $C(\Delta\eta,\Delta\phi)$ correlation functions were compared with results from a similar analysis on p+p interactions at similar beam momenta per nucleon. General trends of the back-to-back correlations are similar in central Be+Be collisions and p+p interactions, but are suppressed in magnitude due to the increased combinatorial background. Predictions from the EPOS and UrQMD models are compared to the measurements. Evolution of an enhancement around $(\Delta\eta,\Delta\phi) = (0,0)$ with incident energy is observed in central Be+Be collisions. It is not predicted by both models and almost non-existing in proton-proton collisions at the same momentum per nucleon., Comment: 28 pages, 17 figures, applied corrections after journal review
Published: 2020
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22. $K^{*}(892)^0$ meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 GeV/$c$ beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Łysakowski, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wyszyński, O., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The measurement of $K^{*}(892)^0$ resonance production via its $K^{+}\pi^{-}$ decay mode in inelastic p+p collisions at beam momentum 158 GeV/$c$ ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=17.3$ GeV) is presented. The data were recorded by the NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The \textit{template} method was used to extract the $K^{*}(892)^0$ signal and double differential transverse momentum and rapidity spectra were obtained. The full phase-space mean multiplicity of $K^{*}(892)^0$ mesons was found to be $(78.44 \pm 0.38 \mathrm{(stat)} \pm 6.0 \mathrm{(sys)) \cdot 10^{-3}}$. The NA61/SHINE results are compared with the EPOS1.99 and Hadron Resonance Gas models as well as with world data from p+p and nucleus-nucleus collisions., Comment: version published in Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2020
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23. Search for an exotic S=-2, Q=-2 baryon resonance in proton-proton interactions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 17.3 GeV

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wyszyński, O., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Pentaquark states have been extensively investigated theoretically in the context of the constituent quark model. In this paper results of an experimental search for pentaquarks in the \Xim\pim, \Xim\pip, \Xip\pim and \Xip\pip invariant mass spectra in proton-proton interactions at $\sqrt{s}$=17.3~\GeV are presented. Previous possible evidence from the NA49 collaboration of the existence of a narrow \Xim\pim baryon resonance in p+p interactions is not confirmed with almost 10 times greater event statistics. The search was performed using the \NASixtyOne detector which reuses the main components of the NA49 apparatus. No signal was observed with either the selection cuts of NA49 or newly optimised cuts., Comment: The papaer quote 33 M events while in reality after describted event cuts number reduced to 26M
Published: 2019
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24. Proton-proton interactions and onset of deconfinement

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wyszyński, O., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is performing a uniqe 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 NA49 experiment found structures in the energy dependence of several observables in the CERN SPS energy range that had been predicted for the transition to a deconfined phase. New measurements of NA61/SHINE find intriguing similarities in p+p interactions for which no deconfinement transition is expected at SPS energies. Possible implications will be discussed.
Published: 2019
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25. Measurements of hadron production in $\pi^{+}$ + C and $\pi^{+}$ + Be interactions at 60 GeV/$c$

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Łysakowski, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Snoch, A., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Precise knowledge of hadron production rates in the generation of neutrino beams is necessary for accelerator-based neutrino experiments to achieve their physics goals. NA61/SHINE, a large-acceptance hadron spectrometer, has recorded hadron+nucleus interactions relevant to ongoing and future long-baseline neutrino experiments at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. This paper presents three analyses of interactions of 60 GeV/$c$ $\pi^+$ with thin, fixed carbon and beryllium targets. Integrated production and inelastic cross sections were measured for both of these reactions. In an analysis of strange, neutral hadron production, differential production multiplicities of $K^0_{S}$, $\Lambda$ and anti-$\Lambda$ were measured. Lastly, in an analysis of charged hadron production, differential production multiplicities of $\pi^+$, $\pi^-$, $K^+$, $K^-$ and protons were measured. These measurements will enable long-baseline neutrino experiments to better constrain predictions of their neutrino flux in order to achieve better precision on their neutrino cross section and oscillation measurements.
Published: 2019
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26. Measurements of production and inelastic cross sections for $\mbox{p}+\mbox{C}$, $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Be}$, and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Al}$ at 60 GeV/$c$ and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{C}$ and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Be}$ at 120 GeV/$c$

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Łysakowski, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Snoch, A., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: 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 was performed using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. First measurements were obtained using protons at 120 GeV/$c$, while the results for protons at 60 GeV/$c$ were 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.
Published: 2019
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27. Measurement of $\phi$ meson production in p+p interactions at 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Babkin, V., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Csanad, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deliyergiyev, M., Deveaux, M., Dmitriev, A., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Łysakowski, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Results on $\phi$ meson production in inelastic p+p collisions at CERN SPS energies are presented. They are derived from data collected by the NA61/SHINE fixed target experiment, by means of invariant mass spectra fits in the $\phi \to K^+K^-$ decay channel. They include the first ever measured double differential spectra of $\phi$ mesons as a function of rapidity $y$ and transverse momentum $p_T$ for proton beam momenta of 80 GeV/c and 158 GeV/c, as well as single differential spectra of $y$ or $p_T$ for beam momentum of 40 GeV/c. The corresponding total $\phi$ yields per inelastic p+p event are obtained. These results are compared with existing data on $\phi$ meson production in p+p collisions. The comparison shows consistency but superior accuracy of the present measurements. The emission of $\phi$ mesons in p+p reactions is confronted with that occurring in Pb+Pb collisions, and the experimental results are compared with model predictions. It appears that none of the considered models can properly describe all the experimental observables.
Published: 2019

28. Dedicated $\Delta$E-E detector system for searching long lived heaviest nuclei deposited in scintillators

Author: Zelga, K., Majka, Z., Płaneta, R., Sosin, Z., Wieloch, A., Adamczyk, M., Łojek, K., Barbui, M., Wuenschel, S., Hagel, K., Cao, X., Natowitz, J., Wada, R., Giuliani, G., Kim, E-J., Zheng, H., and Kowalski, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We present a dedicated experimental setup which is currently used to search for long lived super heavy elements (SHE) implanted in catcher scintillators which were irradiated by reaction products of $^{197}$Au (7.5 A.MeV) projectile and $^{232}$Th target collisions during our experiment performed at Cyclotrone Institute, Texas A$\&$M University in 2015. The built-in novel measuring apparatus consists of $\Delta$E-E detector pairs which are able to register $\alpha$ or spontaneous fission (SF) decays of heavy reaction products deposited in the scintillators. Their unique feature is that the examined scintillators are at the same time $\Delta$E part of each of $\Delta$E-E detector while E part is a silicon detector. Our apparatus is dedicated to search for SHEs which have a lifetime of a year till tens of years. Results of commissioning tests of our setup are presented., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, presented at Zakopane Conference on Nulear Physics 2018, submitted to Acta Physica Polonica B
Published: 2018
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29. A novel experimental setup for rare events selection and its potential application to super heavy elements search

Author: Majka, Z., Planeta, R., Sosin, Z., Wieloch, A., Zelga, K., Adamczyk, M., Pelczar, K., Barbui, M., Wuenschel, S., Hagel, K., Cao, X., Kim, E-J., Natowitz, J., Wada, R., Zheng, H., Giuliani, G., and Kowalski, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The paper presents a novel instrumentation for rare events selection which was tested in our research of short lived super heavy elements production and detection. The instrumentation includes an active catcher multi elements system and dedicated electronics. The active catcher located in the forward hemisphere is composed of 63 scintillator detection modules. Reaction products of damped collisions between heavy ion projectiles and heavy target nuclei are implanted in the fast plastic scintillators of the active catcher modules. The acquisition system trigger delivered by logical branch of the electronics allows to record the reaction products which decay via the alpha particle emissions or spontaneous fission which take place between beam bursts. One microsecond wave form signal from FADCs contains information on heavy implanted nucleus as well as its decays., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Acta Physica Polonica B
Published: 2018
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30. Measurements of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$ and proton yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, The NA61/SHINE, Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Baatar, B., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deveaux, M., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hervé, A. E., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Łysakowski, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishikawa, K., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Słodkowski, M., Snoch, A., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Walewski, M., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., Zwaska, R., Group, The T2K Beam, Berns, L., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Hartz, M., Vladisavljevic, T., and Yu, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of the $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, 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 $\pi^{\pm}$ yields were measured with increased precision compared to the previously published NA61/SHINE results, while the $K^{\pm}$ 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., Comment: 43 pages, 55 figures
Published: 2018
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31. Measurements of total production cross sections for $\pi^{+}$+C, $\pi^{+}$+Al, $K^{+}$+C, and $K^{+}$+Al at 60 GeV/c and $\pi^{+}$+C and $\pi^{+}$+Al at 31 GeV/c

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E., Antićić, T., Baatar, B., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deveaux, M., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hervé, A. E., Igolkin, S., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Łojek, K., Łysakowski, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Posiadała, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Snoch, A., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Walewski, M., Wickremasinghe, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Yarritu, K., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper presents several measurements of total production cross sections and total inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: $\pi^{+}$+C, $\pi^{+}$+Al, $K^{+}$+C, $K^{+}$+Al at 60 GeV/c, $\pi^{+}$+C and $\pi^{+}$+Al at 31 GeV/c . The measurements were made using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. Comparisons with previous measurements are given and good agreement is seen. These interaction cross sections measurements are a key ingredient for neutrino flux prediction from the reinteractions of secondary hadrons in current and future accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino experiments., Comment: Updated to accepted text
Published: 2018
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32. An experimental survey of the production of alpha decaying heavy elements in the reactions of $^{238}$U +$^{232}$Th at 7.5-6.1 MeV/nucleon

Author: Wuenschel, S., Hagel, K., Barbui, M., Gauthier, J., Cao, X. G., Wada, R., Kim, E. J., Majka, Z., Płaneta, R., Sosin, Z., Wieloch, A., Zelga, K., Kowalski, S., Schmidt, K., Ma, C., Zhang, G., and Natowitz, J. B.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The production of alpha particle decaying heavy nuclei in reactions of 7.5-6.1 MeV/nucleon $^{238}$U +$^{232}$Th has been explored using an in-beam detection array composed of YAP scintillators and gas ionization chamber-Si telescopes. Comparisons of alpha energies and half-lives for the observed products with those of the previously known isotopes and with theoretically predicted values indicate the observation of a number of previously unreported alpha emitters. Alpha particle decay energies reaching as high as 12 MeV are observed. Many of these are expected to be from decay of previously unseen relatively neutron rich products. While the contributions of isomeric states require further exploration and specific isotope identifications need to be made, the production of heavy isotopes with quite high atomic numbers is suggested by the data., Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2018
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33. Measurement of Meson Resonance Production in $\pi^{-} + $C Interactions at SPS energies

Author: Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Andronov, E. V., Antićić, T., Baatar, B., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Dembinski, H., Deveaux, M., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Faas, S., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Francois, C., Garibov, A., Garrido, X., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hervé, A. E., Hylen, J., Igolkin, S. N., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Lundberg, B., Łysakowski, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mariş, I. C., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Posiadała, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rameika, R., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Ruprecht, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Snoch, A., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Walewski, M., Wickremasinghe, A., Wilkinson, C., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present measurements of $\rho^0$, $\omega$ and K$^{*0}$ spectra in $\pi^{-} + $C production interactions at 158 GeV/c and $\rho^0$ spectra at 350 GeV/c using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. Spectra are presented as a function of the Feynman's variable $x_\text{F}$ in the range $0 < x_\text{F} < 1$ and $0 < x_\text{F} < 0.5$ for 158 GeV/c and 350 GeV/c respectively. Furthermore, we show comparisons with previous measurements and predictions of several hadronic interaction models. These measurements are essential for a better understanding of hadronic shower development and for improving the modeling of cosmic ray air showers., Comment: submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2017
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34. Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, K$^\pm$, p and $\bar{\textrm{p}}$ spectra in proton-proton interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Andronov, E., Antićić, T., Baatar, B., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Cherif, H., Ćirković, M., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Dembinski, H., Deveaux, M., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Francois, C., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hervé, A. E., Hylen, J., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Knezević, N., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lundberg, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Łysakowski, B., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Messerly, B., Mik, Ł., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Naskręt, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Posiadała, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rameika, R., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, K., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A., Seyboth, P., Słodkowski, M., Snoch, A., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Walewski, M., Wickremasinghe, A., Wilkinson, C., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of $\pi^\pm$, K$^\pm$, p and $\bar{\textrm{p}}$ 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) 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.
Published: 2017
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35. Two-particle correlations in azimuthal angle and pseudorapidity in inelastic p+p interactions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Andronov, E., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Cirkovic, M., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Dembinski, H., Deveaux, M., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Herve, A. E., Hierholzer, M., Hylen, J., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kielbowicz, M., Kisiel, J., Knezevic, N., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lewicki, M., Lundberg, B., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manic, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Messerly, B., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrowczynski, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Ozvenchuk, V., Panagiotou, A. D., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Planeta, R., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Puzovic, J., Rameika, R., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Richter-Was, E., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sarnecki, R., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Slodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Walewski, M., Wickremasinghe, A., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszynski, O., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Results on two-particle $\Delta\eta\Delta\phi$ correlations in inelastic p+p interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158~GeV/c are presented. The measurements were performed using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The data show structures which can be attributed mainly to effects of resonance decays, momentum conservation, and quantum statistics. The results are compared with the EPOS and UrQMD models., Comment: v2: Minor text changes, Fig. 10 updated, version published in Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2016
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36. Challenges in QCD matter physics - The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR

Author: CBM Collaboration, Ablyazimov, T., Abuhoza, A., Adak, R. P., Adamczyk, M., Agarwal, K., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Ahmad, F., Ahmad, N., Ahmad, S., Akindinov, A., Akishin, P., Akishina, E., Akishina, T., Akishina, V., Akram, A., Al-Turany, M., Alekseev, I., Alexandrov, E., Alexandrov, I., Amar-Youcef, S., Anđelić, M., Andreeva, O., Andrei, C., Andronic, A., Anisimov, Yu., Appelshäuser, H., Argintaru, D., Atkin, E., Avdeev, S., Averbeck, R., Azmi, M. D., Baban, V., Bach, M., Badura, E., Bähr, S., Balog, T., Balzer, M., Bao, E., Baranova, N., Barczyk, T., Bartoş, D., Bashir, S., Baszczyk, M., Batenkov, O., Baublis, V., Baznat, M., Becker, J., Becker, K. -H., Belogurov, S., Belyakov, D., Bendarouach, J., Berceanu, I., Bercuci, A., Berdnikov, A., Berdnikov, Y., Berendes, R., Berezin, G., Bergmann, C., Bertini, D., Bertini, O., Beşliu, C., Bezshyyko, O., Bhaduri, P. P., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattacharjee, B., Bhattacharyya, A., Bhattacharyya, T. K., Biswas, S., Blank, T., Blau, D., Blinov, V., Blume, C., Bocharov, Yu., Book, J., Breitner, T., Brüning, U., Brzychczyk, J., Bubak, A., Büsching, H., Bus, T., Butuzov, V., Bychkov, A., Byszuk, A., Cai, Xu, Cálin, M., Cao, Ping, Caragheorgheopol, G., Carević, I., Cătănescu, V., Chakrabarti, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chaus, A., Chen, Hongfang, Chen, LuYao, Cheng, Jianping, Chepurnov, V., Cherif, H., Chernogorov, A., Ciobanu, M. I., Claus, G., Constantin, F., Csanád, M., D'Ascenzo, N., Das, Supriya, Das, Susovan, de Cuveland, J., Debnath, B., Dementiev, D., Deng, Wendi, Deng, Zhi, Deppe, H., Deppner, I., Derenovskaya, O., Deveaux, C. A., Deveaux, M., Dey, K., Dey, M., Dillenseger, P., Dobyrn, V., Doering, D., Dong, Sheng, Dorokhov, A., Dreschmann, M., Drozd, A., Dubey, A. K., Dubnichka, S., Dubnichkova, Z., Dürr, M., Dutka, L., Dželalija, M., Elsha, V. V., Emschermann, D., Engel, H., Eremin, V., Eşanu, T., Eschke, J., Eschweiler, D., Fan, Huanhuan, Fan, Xingming, Farooq, M., Fateev, O., Feng, Shengqin, Figuli, S. P. D., Filozova, I., Finogeev, D., Fischer, P., Flemming, H., Förtsch, J., Frankenfeld, U., Friese, V., Friske, E., Fröhlich, I., Frühauf, J., Gajda, J., Galatyuk, T., Gangopadhyay, G., Chávez, C. García, Gebelein, J., Ghosh, P., Ghosh, S. K., Gläßel, S., Goffe, M., Golinka-Bezshyyko, L., Golovatyuk, V., Golovnya, S., Golovtsov, V., Golubeva, M., Golubkov, D., Ramírez, A. Gómez, Gorbunov, S., Gorokhov, S., Gottschalk, D., Gryboś, P., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Gudima, K., Gumiński, M., Gupta, A., Gusakov, Yu., Han, Dong, Hartmann, H., He, Shue, Hehner, J., Heine, N., Herghelegiu, A., Herrmann, N., Heß, B., Heuser, J. M., Himmi, A., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Hu, Dongdong, Huang, Guangming, Huang, Xinjie, Hutter, D., Ierusalimov, A., Ilgenfritz, E. -M., Irfan, M., Ivanischev, D., Ivanov, M., Ivanov, P., Ivanov, Valery, Ivanov, Victor, Ivanov, Vladimir, Ivashkin, A., Jaaskelainen, K., Jahan, H., Jain, V., Jakovlev, V., Janson, T., Jiang, Di, Jipa, A., Kadenko, I., Kähler, P., Kämpfer, B., Kalinin, V., Kallunkathariyil, J., Kampert, K. -H., Kaptur, E., Karabowicz, R., Karavichev, O., Karavicheva, T., Karmanov, D., Karnaukhov, V., Karpechev, E., Kasiński, K., Kasprowicz, G., Kaur, M., Kazantsev, A., Kebschull, U., Kekelidze, G., Khan, M. M., Khan, S. A., Khanzadeev, A., Khasanov, F., Khvorostukhin, A., Kirakosyan, V., Kirejczyk, M., Kiryakov, A., Kiš, M., Kisel, I., Kisel, P., Kiselev, S., Kiss, T., Klaus, P., Kłeczek, R., Klein-Bösing, Ch., Kleipa, V., Klochkov, V., Kmon, P., Koch, K., Kochenda, L., Koczoń, P., Koenig, W., Kohn, M., Kolb, B. W., Kolosova, A., Komkov, B., Korolev, M., Korolko, I., Kotte, R., Kovalchuk, A., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Kozlov, G., Kozlov, V., Kramarenko, V., Kravtsov, P., Krebs, E., Kreidl, C., Kres, I., Kresan, D., Kretschmar, G., Krieger, M., Kryanev, A. V., Kryshen, E., Kuc, M., Kucewicz, W., Kucher, V., Kudin, L., Kugler, A., Kumar, Ajit, Kumar, Ashwini, Kumar, L., Kunkel, J., Kurepin, A., Kurepin, N., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Kushpil, V., Kuznetsov, S., Kyva, V., Ladygin, V., Lara, C., Larionov, P., García, A. Laso, Lavrik, E., Lazanu, I., Lebedev, A., Lebedev, S., Lebedeva, E., Lehnert, J., Lehrbach, J., Leifels, Y., Lemke, F., Li, Cheng, Li, Qiyan, Li, Xin, Li, Yuanjing, Lindenstruth, V., Linnik, B., Liu, Feng, Lobanov, I., Lobanova, E., Löchner, S., Loizeau, P. -A., Lone, S. A., Martínez, J. A. Lucio, Luo, Xiaofeng, Lymanets, A., Lyu, Pengfei, Maevskaya, A., Mahajan, S., Mahapatra, D. P., Mahmoud, T., Maj, P., Majka, Z., Malakhov, A., Malankin, E., Malkevich, D., Malyatina, O., Malygina, H., Mandal, M. M., Mandal, S., Manko, V., Manz, S., Garcia, A. M. Marin, Markert, J., Masciocchi, S., Matulewicz, T., Meder, L., Merkin, M., Mialkovski, V., Michel, J., Miftakhov, N., Mik, L., Mikhailov, K., Mikhaylov, V., Milanović, B., Militsija, V., Miskowiec, D., Momot, I., Morhardt, T., Morozov, S., Müller, W. F. J., Müntz, C., Mukherjee, S., Castillo, C. E. Muńoz, Murin, Yu., Najman, R., Nandi, C., Nandy, E., Naumann, L., Nayak, T., Nedosekin, A., Negi, V. S., Niebur, W., Nikulin, V., Normanov, D., Oancea, A., Oh, Kunsu, Onishchuk, Yu., Ososkov, G., Otfinowski, P., Ovcharenko, E., Pal, S., Panasenko, I., Panda, N. R., Parzhitskiy, S., Patel, V., Pauly, C., Penschuck, M., Peshekhonov, D., Peshekhonov, V., Petráček, V., Petri, M., Petriş, M., Petrovici, A., Petrovici, M., Petrovskiy, A., Petukhov, O., Pfeifer, D., Piasecki, K., Pieper, J., Pietraszko, J., Płaneta, R., Plotnikov, V., Plujko, V., Pluta, J., Pop, A., Pospisil, V., Poźniak, K., Prakash, A., Prasad, S. K., Prokudin, M., Pshenichnov, I., Pugach, M., Pugatch, V., Querchfeld, S., Rabtsun, S., Radulescu, L., Raha, S., Rami, F., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Raportirenko, A., Rautenberg, J., Rauza, J., Ray, R., Razin, S., Reichelt, P., Reinecke, S., Reinefeld, A., Reshetin, A., Ristea, C., Ristea, O., Rodriguez, A. Rodriguez, Roether, F., Romaniuk, R., Rost, A., Rostchin, E., Rostovtseva, I., Roy, Amitava, Roy, Ankhi, Rożynek, J., Ryabov, Yu., Sadovsky, A., Sahoo, R., Sahu, P. K., Sahu, S. K., Saini, J., Samanta, S., Sambyal, S. S., Samsonov, V., Rosado, J. Sánchez, Sander, O., Sarangi, S., Satława, T., Sau, S., Saveliev, V., Schatral, S., Schiaua, C., Schintke, F., Schmidt, C. J., Schmidt, H. R., Schmidt, K., Scholten, J., Schweda, K., Seck, F., Seddiki, S., Selyuzhenkov, I., Semennikov, A., Senger, A., Senger, P., Shabanov, A., Shabunov, A., Shao, Ming, Sheremetiev, A. D., Shi, Shusu, Shumeiko, N., Shumikhin, V., Sibiryak, I., Sikora, B., Simakov, A., Simon, C., Simons, C., Singaraju, R. N., Singh, A. K., Singh, B. K., Singh, C. P., Singhal, V., Singla, M., Sitzmann, P., Siwek-Wilczyńska, K., Škoda, L., Skwira-Chalot, I., Som, I., Song, Guofeng, Song, Jihye, Sosin, Z., Soyk, D., Staszel, P., Strikhanov, M., Strohauer, S., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sultanov, R., Sun, Yongjie, Svirida, D., Svoboda, O., Szabó, A., Szczygieł, R., Talukdar, R., Tang, Zebo, Tanha, M., Tarasiuk, J., Tarassenkova, O., Târzilă, M. -G., Teklishyn, M., Tischler, T., Tlustý, P., Tölyhi, T., Toia, A., Topil'skaya, N., Träger, M., Tripathy, S., Tsakov, I., Tsyupa, Yu., Turowiecki, A., Tuturas, N. G., Uhlig, F., Usenko, E., Valin, I., Varga, D., Vassiliev, I., Vasylyev, O., Verbitskaya, E., Verhoeven, W., Veshikov, A., Visinka, R., Viyogi, Y. P., Volkov, S., Volochniuk, A., Vorobiev, A., Voronin, Aleksey, Voronin, Alexander, Vovchenko, V., Vznuzdaev, M., Wang, Dong, Wang, Xi-Wei, Wang, Yaping, Wang, Yi, Weber, M., Wendisch, C., Wessels, J. P., Wiebusch, M., Wiechula, J., Wielanek, D., Wieloch, A., Wilms, A., Winckler, N., Winter, M., Wiśniewski, K., Wolf, Gy., Won, Sanguk, Wu, Ke-Jun, Wüstenfeld, J., Xiang, Changzhou, Xu, Nu, Yang, Junfeng, Yang, Rongxing, Yin, Zhongbao, Yoo, In-Kwon, Yuldashev, B., Yushmanov, I., Zabołotny, W., Zaitsev, Yu., Zamiatin, N. I., Zanevsky, Yu., Zhalov, M., Zhang, Yifei, Zhang, Yu, Zhao, Lei, Zheng, Jiajun, Zheng, Sheng, Zhou, Daicui, Zhou, Jing, Zhu, Xianglei, Zinchenko, A., Zipper, W., Żoładź, M., Zrelov, P., Zryuev, V., Zumbruch, P., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Substantial experimental and theoretical efforts worldwide are devoted to explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. At LHC and top RHIC energies, QCD matter is studied at very high temperatures and nearly vanishing net-baryon densities. There is evidence that a Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) was created at experiments at RHIC and LHC. The transition from the QGP back to the hadron gas is found to be a smooth cross over. For larger net-baryon densities and lower temperatures, it is expected that the QCD phase diagram exhibits a rich structure, such as a first-order phase transition between hadronic and partonic matter which terminates in a critical point, or exotic phases like quarkyonic matter. The discovery of these landmarks would be a breakthrough in our understanding of the strong interaction and is therefore in the focus of various high-energy heavy-ion research programs. The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR will play a unique role in the exploration of the QCD phase diagram in the region of high net-baryon densities, because it is designed to run at unprecedented interaction rates. High-rate operation is the key prerequisite for high-precision measurements of multi-differential observables and of rare diagnostic probes which are sensitive to the dense phase of the nuclear fireball. The goal of the CBM experiment at SIS100 (sqrt(s_NN) = 2.7 - 4.9 GeV) is to discover fundamental properties of QCD matter: the phase structure at large baryon-chemical potentials (mu_B > 500 MeV), effects of chiral symmetry, and the equation-of-state at high density as it is expected to occur in the core of neutron stars. In this article, we review the motivation for and the physics programme of CBM, including activities before the start of data taking in 2022, in the context of the worldwide efforts to explore high-density QCD matter., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures. Published in European Physical Journal A
Published: 2016
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37. Measurements of $\pi^{\pm}$ differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ajaz, M., Ali, Y., Andronov, E., Antićić, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Blümer, J., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Ćirković, M., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Deveaux, M., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hervé, A. E., Hierholzer, M., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manic, D., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Messerly, B., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Panagiotou, A. D., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Płaneta, R., Popov, B. A., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Robert, A., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sarnecki, R., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Yarritu, K., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., Friend, M., Galymov, V., Hartz, M., Hiraki, T., Ichikawa, A., Kubo, H., Matsuoka, K., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Tzanov, M., and Yu, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Measurements of particle emission from a replica of the T2K 90 cm-long carbon target were performed in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS, using data collected during a high-statistics run in 2009. An efficient use of the long-target measurements for neutrino flux predictions in T2K requires dedicated reconstruction and analysis techniques. Fully-corrected differential yields of $\pi^\pm$-mesons from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons are presented. A possible strategy to implement these results into the T2K neutrino beam predictions is discussed and the propagation of the uncertainties of these results to the final neutrino flux is performed.
Published: 2016
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38. Production of $\Lambda$ hyperons in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 GeV/$c$

Author: Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Andronov, E., Antićić, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Ćirković, M., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Dembinski, H., Deveaux, M., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hervé, A. E., Hierholzer, M., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Messerly, B., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Panagiotou, A. D., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Płaneta, R., Popov, B. A., Posiadała, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Richter-Wąs, E., Robert, A., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Inclusive production of $\Lambda$-hyperons was measured with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS in inelastic p+p interactions at beam momentum of 158~\GeVc. Spectra of transverse momentum and transverse mass as well as distributions of rapidity and x$_{_F}$ are presented. The mean multiplicity was estimated to be $0.120\,\pm0.006\;(stat.)\,\pm 0.010\;(sys.)$. The results are compared with previous measurements and predictions of the EPOS, UrQMD and FRITIOF models., Comment: 19 pages, 20 figures, 6 tables
Published: 2015
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39. Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $K^0_S$, $\Lambda$ and proton production in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/$c$ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Andronov, E., Antićić, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Blümer, J., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Deveaux, M., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Drozhzhova, T., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Herve, A., Hierholzer, M., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Joković, D., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kiełczewska, D., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marchionni, A., Manić, D., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Messerly, B., Mills, G. B., Morozov, S., Mrówczyński, S., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Panagiotou, A. D., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Płaneta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadała-Zezula, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Richter-Was, E., Robert, A., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sarnecki, R., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seryakov, A., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Yarritu, K., Zambelli, L., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: 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 $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, p, $K^0_S$ and $\Lambda$ 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., Comment: v1 corresponds to the preprint CERN-PH-EP-2015-278; v2 matches the final published version
Published: 2015
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40. Multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations in inelastic proton-proton interactions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Andronov, E., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Cirkovic, M., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Deveaux, M., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Herve, A., Hierholzer, M., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, S., Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lewicki, M., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manic, D., Marcinek, A., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Morozov, S., Mrowczynski, S., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Panagiotou, A. D., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Planeta, R., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Puzovic, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Richter-Was, E., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sarnecki, R., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seryakov, A., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Slodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszynski, O., and Zambelli, L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations of charged particles were performed in inelastic p+p interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c beam momentum. Results for the scaled variance of the multiplicity distribution and for three strongly intensive measures of multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations \$\Delta[P_{T},N]\$, \$\Sigma[P_{T},N]\$ and \$\Phi_{p_T}\$ are presented. For the first time the results on fluctuations are fully corrected for experimental biases. The results on multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations significantly deviate from expectations for the independent particle production. They also depend on charges of selected hadrons. The string-resonance Monte Carlo models EPOS and UrQMD do not describe the data. The scaled variance of multiplicity fluctuations is significantly higher in inelastic p+p interactions than in central Pb+Pb collisions measured by NA49 at the same energy per nucleon. This is in qualitative disagreement with the predictions of the Wounded Nucleon Model. Within the statistical framework the enhanced multiplicity fluctuations in inelastic p+p interactions can be interpreted as due to event-by-event fluctuations of the fireball energy and/or volume., Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2015
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41. Freeze-out configuration properties in the 197Au + 197Au reaction at 23 AMeV

Author: Najman, R., Planeta, R., Sochocka, A., Amorini, F., Auditore, L., Cap, T., Cardella, G., De Filippo, E., Geraci, E., Grzeszczuk, A., Kowalski, S., Kozik, T., Lanzalone, G., Lombardo, I., Majka, Z., Nicolis, N. G., Pagano, A., Piasecki, E., Pirrone, S., Politi, G., Rizzo, F., Russotto, P., Siwek-Wilczynska, K., Skwira-Chalot, I., Trifiro, A., Trimarchi, M., Wilczynski, J., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Data from the experiment on the 197Au + 197Au reaction at 23 AMeV are analyzed with an aim to find signatures of exotic nuclear configurations such as toroid-shaped objects. The experimental data are compared with predictions of the ETNA code dedicated to look for such configurations and with the QMD model. A novel criterion of selecting events possibly resulting from the formation of exotic freeze-out configurations, "the efficiency factor", is tested. Comparison between experimental data and model predictions may indicate for the formation of flat/toroidal nuclear systems.
Published: 2015
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42. DETERMINATION OF IMPACT PARAMETERS IN ALIGNED BREAKUP OF PROJECTILE-LIKE FRAGMENTS IN Au-197+Au-197 COLLISIONS AT 23 A MeV

Author: Cap, T, Siwek-Wilczynska, K, Wilczynski, J, Amorini, F, Auditore, L, Cardella, G, De Filippo, E, Geraci, E, Grassi, L, Grzeszczuk, A, La Guidara, E, Han, J, Kozik, T, Lanzalone, G, Lombardo, I, Najman, R, Nicolis, NG, Pagano, A, Papa, M, Piasecki, E, Pirrone, S, Planeta, R, Politi, G, Rizzo, F, Russotto, P, Skwira-Chalot, I, Trifiro, A, Trimarchi, M, Verde, G, and Zipper, W
Subjects: Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences
Published: 2016

43. NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system

Author: Abgrall, N., Andreeva, O., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bogusz, M., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Christakoglou, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Diakonos, F., DiLuise, S., Dominik, W., Drozhzhova, T., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Efthymiopoulos, I., Ereditato, A., Fabich, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Fulop, A., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hierholzer, M., Idczak, R., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Jokovic, D., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kielczewska, D., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kiss, T., Kleinfelder, S., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Koversarski, P., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Maletic, D., Manglunki, D., Manic, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marin, V., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Messina, M., Mrowczynski, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Puzovic, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Richter-Was, E., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Savic, M., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Sipos, R., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Sosin, Z., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Stroebele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Tereshchenko, V., Tolyhi, T., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarz, A., Wyszynski, O., Zambelli, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment, 81V36
Abstract: NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a multi-purpose experimental facility to study hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. It recorded the first physics data with hadron beams in 2009 and with ion beams (secondary 7Be beams) in 2011. NA61/SHINE has greatly profited from the long development of the CERN proton and ion sources and the accelerator chain as well as the H2 beamline of the CERN North Area. The latter has recently been modified to also serve as a fragment separator as needed to produce the Be beams for NA61/SHINE. Numerous components of the NA61/SHINE set-up were inherited from its predecessors, in particular, the last one, the NA49 experiment. Important new detectors and upgrades of the legacy equipment were introduced by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration. This paper describes the state of the NA61/SHINE facility - the beams and the detector system - before the CERN Long Shutdown I, which started in March 2013.
Published: 2014
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44. Measurement of negatively charged pion spectra in inelastic p+p interactions at $p_{lab}$ = 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Drozhzhova, T., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Fulop, A., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hierholzer, M., Idczak, R., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Joković, D., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kiełczewska, D., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kiss, T., Kleinfelder, S., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kovesarki, P., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marcinek, A., Marin, V., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Mrówczyński, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Pistillo, C., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadała, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Savić, M., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Sipos, R., Skrzypczak, E., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Tereshchenko, V., Tolyhi, T., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear 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., Comment: Numerical results available at: https://edms.cern.ch/document/1314605 Updates in v3: Updated version, as accepted for publication
Published: 2013
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45. Measurements of Production Properties of K0S mesons and Lambda hyperons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c

Author: Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Argyriades, J., Baatar, B., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bravar, A., Brooks, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Drozhzhova, T., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Esposito, L., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Fulop, A., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Hakobyan, H., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hierholzer, M., Idczak, R., Igolkin, S., Ivanov, Y., Ivashkin, A., Jokovic, D., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Katrynska, N., Kaptur, E., Kielczewska, D., Kikola, D., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kiss, T., Kleinfelder, S., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kuleshov, S., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Maletic, D., Manic, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marin, V., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Mrówczyński, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Peryt, W., Pistillo, C., Redij, A., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadała, M., Puławski, S., Puzovic, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Savic, M., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Sipos, R., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Tereshchenko, V., Tolyhi, T., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Spectra of K0S mesons and Lambda hyperons were measured in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The data were collected with an isotropic graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length. Interaction cross sections, charged pion spectra, and charged kaon spectra were previously measured using the same data set. Results on K0S and Lambda production in p+C interactions serve as reference for the understanding of the enhancement of strangeness production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Moreover, they provide important input for the improvement of neutrino flux predictions for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. Inclusive production cross sections for K0S and Lambda are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in intervals of the laboratory polar angle covering the range from 0 up to 240 mrad. The results are compared with predictions of several hadron production models. The K0S mean multiplicity in production processes and the inclusive cross section for K0S production were measured and amount to 0.127 +- 0.005 (stat) +- 0.022 (sys) and 29.0 +- 1.6 (stat) +- 5.0 (sys) mb, respectively.
Published: 2013
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46. Pion emission from the T2K replica target: method, results and application

Author: Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Argyriades, J., Baatar, B., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bravar, A., Brooks, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bubak, A., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Esposito, L. S., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Ferrero, A., Fulop, A., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grabez, B., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hakobyan, H., Hasegawa, T., Idczak, R., Igolkin, S., Ivanov, Y., Ivashkin, A., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Katrynska, N., Kielczewska, D., Kikola, D., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kiss, T., Kleinfelder, S., Kobayashi, T., Kochebina, O., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kuleshov, S., Kurepin, A., Lacey, R., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Maletic, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Maris, I., Marin, V., Marton, K., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Messina, M., Mrowczynski, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Puzovic, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Savic, M., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Sipos, R., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strabel, C., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tereshchenko, V., Tolyhi, T., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszynski, O., Zambelli, L., Zipper, W., Galymov, V., Hartz, M., Ichikawa, A. K., Kubo, H., Marino, A. D., Matsuoka, K., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Yuan, T., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan needs precise predictions of the initial neutrino flux. The highest precision can be reached based on detailed measurements of hadron emission from the same target as used by T2K exposed to a proton beam of the same kinetic energy of 30 GeV. The corresponding data were recorded in 2007-2010 by the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS using a replica of the T2K graphite target. In this paper details of the experiment, data taking, data analysis method and results from the 2007 pilot run are presented. Furthermore, the application of the NA61/SHINE measurements to the predictions of the T2K initial neutrino flux is described and discussed., Comment: updated version as published by NIM A
Published: 2012
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47. Correlations between emission timescale of fragments and isospin dynamics in $^{124}$Sn+$^{64}$Ni and $^{112}$Sn+$^{58}$Ni reactions at 35 AMeV

Author: De Filippo, E., Pagano, A., Russotto, P., Amorini, F., Anzalone, A., Auditore, L., Baran, V., Berceanu, I., Borderie, B., Bougault, R., Bruno, M., Cap, T., Cardella, G., Cavallaro, S., Chatterjee, M. B., Chbihi, A., Colonna, M., D'Agostino, M., Dayras, R., Di Toro, M., Frankland, J., Galichet, E., Gawlikowicz, W., Geraci, E., Grzeszczuk, A., Guazzoni, P., Kowalski, S., La Guidara, E., Lanzalone, G., Lanzanò, G., Neindre, N. Le, Lombardo, I., Maiolino, C., Papa, M., Piasecki, E., Pirrone, S., Planeta, R., Politi, G., Pop, A., Porto, F., Rivet, M. F., Rizzo, F., Rosato, E., Schmidt, K., Siwek-Wilczynska, K., Skwira-Chalot, I., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Verde, G., Vigilante, M., Wieleczko, J. P., Wilczynski, J., Zetta, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present a new experimental method to correlate the isotopic composition of intermediate mass fragments (IMF) emitted at mid-rapidity in semi-peripheral collisions with the emission timescale: IMFs emitted in the early stage of the reaction show larger values of $<$N/Z$>$ isospin asymmetry, stronger angular anisotropies and reduced odd-even staggering effects in neutron to proton ratio $<$N/Z$>$ distributions than those produced in sequential statistical emission. All these effects support the concept of isospin "migration", that is sensitive to the density gradient between participant and quasi-spectator nuclear matter, in the so called neck fragmentation mechanism. By comparing the data to a Stochastic Mean Field (SMF) simulation we show that this method gives valuable constraints on the symmetry energy term of nuclear equation of state at subsaturation densities. An indication emerges for a linear density dependence of the symmetry energy., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Physical Rev. C
Published: 2012
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48. Measurement of Production Properties of Positively Charged Kaons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c

Author: Collaboration, The NA61/SHINE, Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Argyriades, J., Baatar, B., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogusz, M., Boldizsar, L., Bravar, A., Brooks, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bubak, A., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Cetner, T., Choi, K. -U., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Esposito, L. S., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Ferrero, A., Fulop, A., Garrido, X., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hakobyan, H., Hasegawa, T., Idczak, R., Ivanov, Y., Ivashkin, A., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Katrynska, N., Kielczewska, D., Kikola, D., Kim, J. -H., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kochebina, O., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kuleshov, S., Kurepin, A., Lacey, R., Lagoda, J., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Malakhov, A. I., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Maris, I., Marin, V., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Meregaglia, A., Messina, M., Mrowczynski, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strabel, C., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szaflik, P., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Yi, J. -G., Yoo, I. -K., Zambelli, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Spectra of positively charged kaons in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c were measured with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data collected in 2007 with a graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length. Interaction cross sections and charged pion spectra were already measured using the same set of data. These new measurements in combination with the published ones are required to improve predictions of the neutrino flux for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. In particular, the knowledge of kaon production is crucial for precisely predicting the intrinsic electron neutrino component and the high energy tail of the T2K beam. The results are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in 2 intervals of the laboratory polar angle covering the range from 20 up to 240 mrad. The kaon spectra are compared with predictions of several hadron production models. Using the published pion results and the new kaon data, the K+/\pi+ ratios are computed., Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2011
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49. Measurements of Cross Sections and Charged Pion Spectra in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c

Author: Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Andrieu, B., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Argyriades, J., Asryan, A. G., Baatar, B., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogusz, M., Boldizsar, L., Bravar, A., Brooks, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bubak, A., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Cetner, T., Choi, K. -U., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Esposito, L. S., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Ferrero, A., Fulop, A., Garrido, X., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Hakobyan, H., Hasegawa, T., Igolkin, S., Ivanov, A. S., Ivanov, Y., Ivashkin, A., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Katrynska, N., Kielczewska, D., Kikola, D., Kim, J. -H., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kochebina, O., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalski, S., Kuleshov, S., Kurepin, A., Lacey, R., Lagoda, J., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak, M., Majka, Z., Malakhov, A. I., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Maris, I., Marin, V., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Meregaglia, A., Messina, M., Mrowczynski, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Naumenko, P. A., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Sissakian, A. N., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Sorin, A. S., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strabel, C., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szaflik, P., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tsenov, R., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek, A., Yi, J. -G., Yoo, I. -K., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: 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 mb and 229.3 +- 1.9 +- 9.0 mb, respectively. Inclusive production cross sections for negatively and positively charged pions are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in 10 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., Comment: updated version; as published by Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2011
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50. Measurement of negatively charged pion spectra in inelastic p plus p interactions at p(lab)=20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c

Author: Abgrall, N, Aduszkiewicz, A, Ali, Y, Anticic, T, Antoniou, N, Baatar, B, Bay, F, Blondel, A, Blumer, J, Bogomilov, M, Bravar, A, Brzychczyk, J, Bunyatov, SA, Busygina, O, Christakoglou, P, Czopowicz, T, Davis, N, Debieux, S, Dembinski, H, Diakonos, F, Di Luise, S, Dominik, W, Drozhzhova, T, Dumarchez, J, Dynowski, K, Engel, R, Ereditato, A, Feofilov, GA, Fodor, Z, Fulop, A, Gazdzicki, M, Golubeva, M, Grebieszkow, K, Grzeszczuk, A, Guber, F, Haesler, A, Hasegawa, T, Hierholzer, M, Idczak, R, Igolkin, S, Ivashkin, A, Jokovic, D, Kadija, K, Kapoyannis, A, Kaptur, E, Kielczewska, D, Kirejczyk, M, Kisiel, J, Kiss, T, Kleinfelder, S, Kobayashi, T, Kolesnikov, VI, Kolev, D, Kondratiev, VP, Korzenev, A, Kovesarki, P, Kowalski, S, Krasnoperov, A, Kurepin, A, Larsen, D, Laszlo, A, Lyubushkin, VV, Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M, Majka, Z, Maksiak, B, Malakhov, AI, Manic, D, Marcinek, A, Marin, V, Marton, K, Mathes, H-J, Matulewicz, T, Matveev, V, Melkumov, GL, Mrowczynski, St, Murphy, S, Nakadaira, T, Nirkko, M, Nishikawa, K, Palczewski, T, Palla, G, Panagiotou, AD, Paul, T, Pistillo, C, Peryt, W, Petukhov, O, Planeta, R, Pluta, J, Popov, BA, Posiadala, M, Pulawski, S, Puzovic, J, Rauch, W, Ravonel, M, Redij, A, Renfordt, R, Robert, A, Roehrich, D, Rondio, E, and Roth, M
Subjects: hep-ex, nucl-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Quantum Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract: We present experimental results on inclusive spectra and mean multiplicitiesof negatively charged pions produced in inelastic p+p interactions at incidentprojectile 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 usingthe large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super ProtonSynchrotron. Two-dimensional spectra are determined in terms of rapidity and transversemomentum. Their properties such as the width of rapidity distributions and theinverse slope parameter of transverse mass spectra are extracted and theircollision energy dependences are presented. The results on inelastic p+pinteractions are compared with the corresponding data on central Pb+Pbcollisions measured by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. The results presented in this paper are part of the NA61/SHINE ion programdevoted to the study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement and searchfor the critical point of strongly interacting matter. They are required forinterpretation of results on nucleus-nucleus and proton-nucleus collisions.
Published: 2014

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