Abstract

New data on the production of charged kaons in p+p interactions are presented. The data come from a sample of 4.8 million inelastic events obtained with the NA49 detector at the CERN SPS at 158 GeV/c beam momentum. The kaons are identified by energy loss in a large TPC tracking system. Inclusive invariant cross sections are obtained in intervals from 0 to 1.7 GeV/c in transverse momentum and from 0 to 0.5 in Feynman x. Using these data as a reference, a new evaluation of the energy dependence of kaon production, including neutral kaons, is conducted over a range from 3 GeV to \(\mathrm{p}+\overline{\mathrm{p}}\) collider energies.

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Title
Inclusive production of charged kaons in p+p collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum and a new evaluation of the energy dependence of kaon production up to collider energies
Author
Anticic, T 1 ; Baatar, B 2 ; Bartke, J 3 ; Betev, L 4 ; Białkowska, H 5 ; Boimska, B 5 ; Bracinik, J 6 ; Cerny, V 7 ; Chvala, O 8 ; Dolejsi, J 9 ; Eckardt, V 10 ; Fischer, H G 4 ; Fodor, Z 11 ; Gładysz, E 3 ; Kadija, K 1 ; Karev, A 4 ; Kolesnikov, V 2 ; Kowalski, M 3 ; Kreps, M 12 ; Makariev, M 13 ; Malakhov, A 2 ; Mateev, M 14 ; Melkumov, G 2 ; Rybicki, A 3 ; Schmitz, N 10 ; Seyboth, P 10 ; Susa, T 1 ; Szymanski, P 5 ; Trubnikov, V 5 ; Varga, D 15 ; Vesztergombi, G 11 ; Wenig, S 4 

 Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia 
 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia 
 H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland 
 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 
 Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland 
 Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 
 Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia 
 UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA; Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 
 Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 
10  Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany 
11  KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary 
12  Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany 
13  Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria 
14  Atomic Physics Department, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria 
15  Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 
Pages
1-73
Publication year
2010
Publication date
Jul 2010
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
14346044
e-ISSN
14346052
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2294034377
Copyright
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