CERN Accelerating science

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Report number	arXiv:2410.18273 ; CERN-EP-2024-278 ; FERMILAB-PUB-24-0788-AD
Title	Measurement of the mass-changing, charge-changing and production cross sections of $^{11}$C, $^{11}$B and $^{10}$B nuclei in $^{12}{\rm C}+p$ interactions at 13.5 GeV/$c$ per nucleon.
Author(s)	Adhikary, H. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Adrich, P. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Allison, K.K. (Colorado U.) ; Amin, N. (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Andronov, E.V. (Unlisted) ; Arsene, I.-C. (Oslo U.) ; Bajda, M. (Jagiellonian U.) ; Balkova, Y. (Silesia U.) ; Battaglia, D. (Notre Dame U.) ; Bazgir, A. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Bennemann, J. (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Bhosale, S. (Cracow, INP) ; Bielewicz, M. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Blondel, A. (LPNHE, Paris) ; Bogomilov, M. (Sofiya U.) ; Bondar, Y. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Bravar, A. (CERN) ; Bryliński, W. (Warsaw U. of Tech. (main)) ; Brzychczyk, J. (Jagiellonian U.) ; Buryakov, M. (Unlisted) ; Camino, A.F. (Pittsburgh U.) ; Ćirković, M. (Belgrade, Inst. Phys.) ; Csanád, M. (Eotvos U.) ; Cybowska, J. (Warsaw U. of Tech. (main)) ; Czopowicz, T. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Dalmazzone, C. (LPNHE, Paris) ; Davis, N. (Cracow, INP) ; Dmitriev, A. (Unlisted) ; von Doetinchem, P. (Hawaii U.) ; Dominik, W. (Warsaw U.) ; Dumarchez, J. (LPNHE, Paris) ; Engel, R. (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Feofilov, G.A. (Unlisted) ; Fields, L. (Notre Dame U.) ; Fodor, Z. (Wigner RCP, Budapest ; Wroclaw U.) ; Friend, M. (KEK, Tsukuba) ; Gaździcki, M. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Gollwitzer, K.E. (Fermilab) ; Golosov, O. (Unlisted) ; Golovatyuk, V. (Unlisted) ; Golubeva, M. (Unlisted) ; Grebieszkow, K. (Warsaw U. of Tech. (main)) ; Guber, F. (Unlisted) ; Hurh, P.G. (Fermilab) ; Ilieva, S. (Sofiya U.) ; Ivashkin, A. (Unlisted) ; Izvestnyy, A. (Unlisted) ; Karpushkin, N. (Unlisted) ; Kiełbowicz, M. (Cracow, INP) ; Kireyeu, V.A. (Unlisted) ; Kolesnikov, R. (Unlisted) ; Kolev, D. (Sofiya U.) ; Koshio, Y. (Okayama U.) ; Kowalski, S. (Silesia U.) ; Kozłowski, B. (Warsaw U. of Tech. (main)) ; Krasnoperov, A. (Unlisted) ; Kucewicz, W. (AGH-UST, Cracow) ; Kuchowicz, M. (Wroclaw U.) ; Kuich, M. (Warsaw U.) ; Kurepin, A. (Unlisted) ; László, A. (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; Lewicki, M. (Cracow, INP) ; Lykasov, G. (Unlisted) ; Lyubushkin, V.V. (Unlisted) ; Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M. (Warsaw U. of Tech. (main)) ; Makhnev, A. (Unlisted) ; Maksiak, B. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Malakhov, A.I. (Unlisted) ; Marcinek, A. (Cracow, INP) ; Marino, A.D. (Colorado U.) ; Mathes, H.-J. (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Matulewicz, T. (Warsaw U.) ; Matveev, V. (Unlisted) ; Melkumov, G.L. (Unlisted) ; Merzlaya, A. (Oslo U.) ; Mik, Ł. (AGH-UST, Cracow) ; Morozov, S. (Unlisted) ; Nagai, Y. (Eotvos U.) ; Nakadaira, T. (KEK, Tsukuba) ; Naskret, M. (Wroclaw U.) ; Nishimori, S. (KEK, Tsukuba) ; Olivier, A. (Notre Dame U.) ; Ozvenchuk, V. (Cracow, INP) ; Panova, O. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Paolone, V. (Pittsburgh U.) ; Petukhov, O. (Unlisted) ; Pidhurskyi, I. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Płaneta, R. (Jagiellonian U.) ; Podlaski, P. (Warsaw U.) ; Popov, B.A. (Unlisted ; LPNHE, Paris) ; Pórfy, B. (Wigner RCP, Budapest ; Eotvos U.) ; Prokhorova, D.S. (Unlisted) ; Pszczel, D. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Puławski, S. (Silesia U.) ; Renfordt, R. (Silesia U.) ; Ren, L. (Colorado U.) ; Reyna Ortiz, V.Z. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Röhrich, D. (Bergen U.) ; Rondio, E. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Roth, M. (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Rozpłochowski, Ł. (Cracow, INP) ; Rumberger, B.T. (Colorado U.) ; Rumyantsev, M. (Unlisted) ; Rustamov, A. (NNRC, Baku) ; Rybczynski, M. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Rybicki, A. (Cracow, INP) ; Rybka, D. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Sakashita, K. (KEK, Tsukuba) ; Schmidt, K. (Silesia U.) ; Seryakov, A. (Unlisted) ; Seyboth, P. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Shah, U.A. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Shiraishi, Y. (Okayama U.) ; Shukla, A. (Hawaii U.) ; Słodkowski, M. (Warsaw U. of Tech. (main)) ; Staszel, P. (Jagiellonian U.) ; Stefanek, G. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Stepaniak, J. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Sutter, F. (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Świderski, Ł. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Szewiński, J. (NCBJ, Warsaw) ; Szukiewicz, R. (Wroclaw U.) ; Taranenko, A. (Unlisted) ; Tefelska, A. (Warsaw U. of Tech. (main)) ; Tefelski, D. (Warsaw U. of Tech. (main)) ; Tereshchenko, V. (Unlisted) ; Tsenov, R. (Sofiya U.) ; Turko, L. (Wroclaw U.) ; Tveter, T.S. (Oslo U.) ; Unger, M. (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Urbaniak, M. (Silesia U.) ; Veberi, D. (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Vitiuk, O. (Wroclaw U.) ; Volkov, V. (Unlisted) ; Wickremasinghe, A. (Fermilab) ; Witek, K. (AGH-UST, Cracow) ; Wójcik, K. (Silesia U.) ; Wyszyński, O. (Jan Kochanowski U.) ; Zaitsev, A. (Unlisted) ; Zherebtsova, E. (Wroclaw U.) ; Zimmerman, E.D. (Colorado U.) ; Zviagina, A. (Unlisted)
Corporate author(s)	The NA61 collaboration
Publication	2024
Imprint	18 Oct 2024
Number of pages	36
Note	36 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRC
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN SPS ; NA61
Keywords	QCD ; global features ; experimental results ; nuclear fragmentation cross sections, carbon-proton interactions, CERN, NA61/SHINE
Abstract	We report results from a 2018 pilot run to study the feasibility of nuclear fragmentation measurements with the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS. These results are important for the interpretation of the production of light secondary cosmic-ray nuclei (Li, Be, and B) in the Galaxy. The specific focus here is on cross sections important for the production of boron in the Galaxy from the interactions of $^{12}$C nuclei with hydrogen in the interstellar medium, including the contribution from the decay of the short-lived $^{11}$C fragments. The data were taken with the secondary $^{12}$C beam at beam momentum of 13.5 GeV/$c$ per nucleon and two fixed targets, polyethylene (CH$_2$) and graphite (C), from which we derive the cross sections of carbon on hydrogen. We present the measurement of the fragmentation cross sections of $^{11}$C, $^{11}$B, and $^{10}$B as well as the mass- and charge-changing cross sections.
Other source	Inspire
Copyright/License	Preprint: © 2024 CERN (License: CC-BY-4.0)
Submitted by	marek.gazdzicki@cern.ch