Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 64: 181-241
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1144-6

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Cross-sections of large-angle hadron production in proton– and pion–nucleus interactions IV: copper nuclei and beam momenta from ±3 GeV/c to ±15 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: 19 June 2009
Revised: 21 August 2009
Published online: 30 September 2009

Abstract

We report on double-differential inclusive cross-sections of the production of secondary protons, charged pions, and deuterons, in the interactions with a 5% λ _abs thick stationary copper target, of proton and pion beams with momentum from ±3 GeV/c to ±15 GeV/c. Results are given for secondary particles with production angles 20°<θ<125°. The inclusive pion production cross-sections are compared to those on beryllium and tantalum, published by us recently.