Eur. Phys. J. C (2008) 54: 169-173
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0525-6

Special Article - Scientific Note

Comments on “Measurement of the production of charged pions by protons on a tantalum target”

¹ Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), 142284, Protvino, Russia
² Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), 141980, Dubna, Russia
³ CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

^* e-mail: friedrich.dydak@cern.ch

Received: 3 August 2007
Revised: 19 October 2007
Published online: 26 January 2008

Abstract

We argue that the cross-sections reported in the article “Measurement of the production of charged pions by protons on a tantalum target” by M.G. Catanesi et al., published in this journal, result from invalid analysis concepts and should not be trusted.