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Hadron Production at Fixed Target Energies and Extensive Air Showers

Nuclear Experiment 2019-08-14 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

NA61/SHINE is a fixed-target experiment to study hadron production in hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS. Due to the very good acceptance and particle identification in forward direction, NA61/SHINE is well suited for measuring particle production to improve the reliability of air shower simulations. Data with proton and pion beams have been taken in 2007 and 2009. First analysis results for the pion yield in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV will be shown and compared to predictions from models used in air shower simulations.

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@article{arxiv.1012.2604,
  title  = {Hadron Production at Fixed Target Energies and Extensive Air Showers},
  author = {M. Unger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.2604},
  year   = {2019}
}

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to appear in the proceedings of ICHEP10