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New data on the production of charged kaons in p+p interactions are presented. The data come from a sample of 4.8 million inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the CERN SPS at 158 GeV/c beam momentum. The kaons are identified by energy loss in a large TPC tracking system. Inclusive invariant cross sections are obtained in intervals from 0 to 1.7 GeV/c in transverse momentum and from 0 to 0.5 in Feynman x. Using these data as a reference, a new evaluation of the energy dependence of kaon production, including neutral kaons, is conducted over a range from 3 GeV to \(\mathrm{p}+\overline{\mathrm{p}}\) collider energies.
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The NA49 Collaboration., Anticic, T., Baatar, B. et al. Inclusive production of charged kaons in p+p collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum and a new evaluation of the energy dependence of kaon production up to collider energies. Eur. Phys. J. C 68, 1–73 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1328-0
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