Measurements of $$\pi ^\pm $$ π± , K$$^\pm $$ ± , p and $${\bar{\text {p}}}$$ p¯ spectra in proton-proton interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 $$\text{ GeV }/c$$ GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

• Main Authors: A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, T. Antićić, B. Baatar, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, H. Dembinski, M. Deveaux, W. Dominik, P. Dorosz, J. Dumarchez, R. Engel, A. Ereditato, G. A. Feofilov, Z. Fodor, C. Francois, A. Garibov, M. Gaździcki, M. Golubeva, K. Grebieszkow, F. Guber, A. Haesler, A. E. Hervé, J. Hylen, S. Igolkin, A. Ivashkin, S. R. Johnson, K. Kadija, E. Kaptur, M. Kiełbowicz, V. A. Kireyeu, V. Klochkov, N. Knezević, V. I. Kolesnikov, D. Kolev, V. P. Kondratiev, A. Korzenev, V. Kovalenko, K. Kowalik, S. Kowalski, M. Koziel, A. Krasnoperov, W. Kucewicz, M. Kuich, A. Kurepin, D. Larsen, A. László, M. Lewicki, B. Lundberg, V. V. Lyubushkin, B. Łysakowski, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, B. Maksiak, A. I. Malakhov, D. Manić, A. Marchionni, A. Marcinek, A. D. Marino, K. Marton, H.-J. Mathes, T. Matulewicz, V. Matveev, G. L. Melkumov, A. Merzlaya, B. Messerly, Ł. Mik, G. B. Mills, S. Morozov, S. Mrówczyński, Y. Nagai, M. Naskręt, V. Ozvenchuk, V. Paolone, M. Pavin, O. Petukhov, C. Pistillo, R. Płaneta, P. Podlaski, B. A. Popov, M. Posiadała, S. Puławski, J. Puzović, R. Rameika, W. Rauch, M. Ravonel, R. Renfordt, E. Richter-Wąs, D. Röhrich, E. Rondio, M. Roth, B. T. Rumberger, A. Rustamov, M. Rybczynski, A. Rybicki, A. Sadovsky, K. Schmidt, I. Selyuzhenkov, A. Seryakov, P. Seyboth, M. Słodkowski, A. Snoch, P. Staszel, G. Stefanek, J. Stepaniak, M. Strikhanov, H. Ströbele, T. Šuša, M. Szuba, A. Taranenko, A. Tefelska, D. Tefelski, V. Tereshchenko, A. Toia, R. Tsenov, L. Turko, R. Ulrich, M. Unger, D. Veberič, V. V. Vechernin, G. Vesztergombi, L. Vinogradov, M. Walewski, A. Wickremasinghe, C. Wilkinson, Z. Włodarczyk, A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc, O. Wyszyński, L. Zambelli, E. D. Zimmerman, R. Zwaska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2017-10-01
• Series: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5260-4
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052

Abstract Measurements of inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of $$\pi ^\pm $$ π± , K$$^\pm $$ ± , p and $${\bar{\text {p}}}$$ p¯ produced in inelastic p + p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 $$\text{ GeV }/c$$ GeV/c ($$\sqrt{s} = $$ s= 6.3, 7.7, 8.8, 12.3 and 17.3 $$\text{ GeV }$$ GeV , respectively) were performed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer. Spectra are presented as function of rapidity and transverse momentum and are compared to predictions of current models. The measurements serve as the baseline in the NA61/SHINE study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter.