Hadron Production Measurements at NA61/SHINE

Conference · Fri Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1995265· OSTI ID:1995265

Allison, Kyle ^[1]

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1. Colorado U.

In current day measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters with accelerator-based neutrino experiments, neutrino flux uncertainties are frequently a leading systematic uncertainty. Precise measurements of primary and secondary hadron production processes for neutrino beams, performed by the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron, can significantly constrain these uncertainties; the T2K experiment has incorporated previous NA61/SHINE measurements for a substantial flux uncertainty reduction. For these measurements, NA61/SHINE analyzes the interactions of charged hadrons with materials relevant to long-baseline experiments, measuring the differential cross sections of produced particles. This poster will review the NA61/SHINE experiment, including recent, ongoing, and future measurements with thin and replica targets, such as proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/c and 120 GeV/c for the T2K and DUNE experiments, respectively.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Contributing Organization: NA61/SHINE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1995265
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-POSTER-23-205-LBNF; oai:inspirehep.net:2685324
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English