Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 62: 293-317
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1053-8

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Cross-sections of large-angle hadron production in proton- and pion-nucleus interactions I: beryllium nuclei and beam momenta of +8.9 GeV/c and −8.0 GeV/c

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
³ CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
⁴ Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
⁵ Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia

^* e-mail: joerg.wotschack@cern.ch

Received: 23 January 2009
Revised: 16 April 2009
Published online: 20 May 2009

Abstract

We report on double-differential inclusive cross-sections of the production of secondary protons, deuterons, and charged pions and kaons, in the interactions with a 5% λ _abs thick stationary beryllium target, of a +8.9 GeV/c proton and pion beam, and a −8.0 GeV/c pion beam. Results are given for secondary particles with production angles 20^○<θ<125^○.