Forward Neutron Production at the Fermilab Main Injector
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2012-08-27 v4 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We have measured cross sections for forward neutron production from a variety of targets using proton beams from the Fermilab Main Injector. Measurements were performed for proton beam momenta of 58 GeV/c, 84 GeV/c, and 120 GeV/c. The cross section dependence on the atomic weight (A) of the targets was found to vary as where is for a beam momentum of 58 GeV/c and 0.540.05 for 120 GeV/c. The cross sections show reasonable agreement with FLUKA and DPMJET Monte Carlos. Comparisons have also been made with the LAQGSM Monte Carlo.
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@article{arxiv.1010.6291,
title = {Forward Neutron Production at the Fermilab Main Injector},
author = {T. S. Nigmanov and D. Rajaram and M. J. Longo and U. Akgun and G. Aydin and W. Baker and P. D. Barnes, and T. Bergfeld and A. Bujak and D. Carey and E. C. Dukes and F. Duru and G. J. Feldman and A. Godley and E. Gülmez and Y. O. Günaydin and N. Graf and H. R. Gustafson and L. Gutay and E. Hartouni and P. Hanlet and M. Heffner and C. Johnstone and D. M. Kaplan and O. Kamaev and J. Klay and M. Kostin and D. Lange and A. Lebedev and L. C. Lu and C. Materniak and M. D. Messier and H. Meyer and D. E. Miller and S. R. Mishra and K. S. Nelson and A. Norman and Y. Onel and J. M. Paley and H. K. Park and A. Penzo and R. J. Peterson and R. Raja and C. Rosenfeld and H. A. Rubin and S. Seun and N. Solomey and R. Soltz and E. Swallow and Y. Torun and K. Wilson and D. Wright and K. Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.6291},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Physical Review D. This version incorporates small changes suggested by referee and small corrections in the neutron production cross sections predicted by FLUKA