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Inclusive charged pion production in hadron-nucleus interactions at 100 and 320 GeV/c

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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An experiment has been performed with the Fermilab 30-inch bubble chamber and Downstream Particle Identifier to study inclusive charged pion production in the high energy interactions of π±,K +,p and\(\bar p\) with thin foils of magnesium, silver and gold. The laboratory rapidity and transverse momentum distributions are presented separately for π+ and π− production. Comparisons are made with data from hadron-proton interactions and theA dependence of the cross sections in the different kinematic regions is discussed. We investigate the dependence of the cross sections on the number of observed protons ejected from the nucleus. By using our π− A data from two different beam energies, we study the energy dependence of these spectra. Comparisons are made with the VENUS string model Monte Carlo.

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  1. Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 16802, University Park, PA, USA

    J. J. Whitmore & F. Persi (NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Awardee)

  2. The Pennsylvania State University, 17237, Mont Alto, PA, USA

    W. S. Toothacker

  3. University of Cambridge, CB3 OHE, Cambridge, UK

    P. A. Elcombe, J. C. Hill & W. W. Neale

  4. Duke University, 27706, Durham, NC, USA

    W. D. Walker & W. Kowald

  5. Fermilab, P.O. Box 500, 60510, Batavia, IL, USA

    P. Lucas & L. Voyvodic

  6. University of Kansas, 66045, Lawrence, KS, USA

    R. Ammar, D. Coppage, R. Davis, J. Gress, S. Kanekal & N. Kwak

  7. University of Notre Dame, 46556, Notre Dame, IN, USA

    J. M. Bishop, N. N. Biswas, N. M. Cason, V. P. Kenney, M. C. K. Mattingly, R. C. Ruchti & W. D. Shephard

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Whitmore, J.J., Persi, F., Toothacker, W.S. et al. Inclusive charged pion production in hadron-nucleus interactions at 100 and 320 GeV/c. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 62, 199–227 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01560238

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