Pion emission from the T2K replica target: method, results and application

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.10.079
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N. Abgrall
A. Aduszkiewicz
T. Anticic
N. Antoniou
J. Argyriades
B. Baatar
A. Blondel
J. Blumer
M. Bogomilov
A. Bravar
W. Brooks
J. Brzychczyk
A. Bubak
S.A. Bunyatov
O. Busygina
P. Christakoglou
P. Chung
T. Czopowicz
N. Davis
S. Debieux
S. Di Luise
W. Dominik
J. Dumarchez
K. Dynowski
R. Engel
A. Ereditato
L.S. Esposito
Z. Fodor
A. Ferrero
A. Fulop
M. Ga dzicki
M. Golubeva
B. Grabez
K. Grebieszkow
A. Grzeszczuk
F. Guber
A. Haesler
H. Hakobyan
T. Hasegawa
R. Idczak
S. Igolkin
Y. Ivanov
A. Ivashkin
K. Kadija
A. Kapoyannis
N. Katry ska
D. Kie czewska
D. Kikola
M. Kirejczyk
J. Kisiel
T. Kiss
S. Kleinfelder
T. Kobayashi
O. Kochebina
V.I. Kolesnikov
D. Kolev
A. Korzenev
S. Kowalski
A. Krasnoperov
S. Kuleshov
A. Kurepin
R. Lacey
D. Larsen
A. Laszlo
V.V. Lyubushkin
M. Ma kowiak-Paw owska
Z. Majka
B. Maksiak
A.I. Malakhov
D. Maletic
A. Marchionni
A. Marcinek
I. Maris
V. Marin
K. Marton
T. Matulewicz
V. Matveev
G.L. Melkumov
M. Messina
S. Mrówczy ski
S. Murphy
T. Nakadaira
K. Nishikawa
T. Palczewski
G. Palla
A.D. Panagiotou
T. Paul
W. Peryt
O. Petukhov
R. P aneta
J. Pluta
B.A. Popov
M. Posiada a
S. Pu awski
J. Puzovic
W. Rauch
M. Ravonel
R. Renfordt
A. Robert
D. Röhrich
E. Rondio
B. Rossi
M. Roth
A. Rubbia
A. Rustamov
M. Rybczy ski
A. Sadovsky
K. Sakashita
M. Savic
T. Sekiguchi
P. Seyboth
M. Shibata
M. Sipos
E. Skrzypczak
M. S odkowski
P. Staszel
G. Stefanek
J. Stepaniak
C. Strabel
H. Ströbele
T. Susa
M. Szuba
M. Tada
A. Taranenko
V. Tereshchenko
T. Tolyhi
R. Tsenov
L. Turko
R. Ulrich
M. Unger
M. Vassiliou
D. Veberi
G. Vesztergombi
A. Wilczek
Z. W odarczyk
A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc
O. Wyszy ski
L. Zambelli
W. Zipper
V. Galymov
M. Hartz
A.K. Ichikawa
H. Kubo
A.D. Marino
K. Matsuoka
A. Murakami
T. Nakaya
K. Suzuki
T. Yuan
E.D. Zimmerman

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	99-114
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	701
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.10.079
State	Published - 2013

Research areas

Hadron production, Long target, Neutrino flux predictions