Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 1882
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1882-8

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Cross-sections of large-angle hadron production in proton– and pion–nucleus interactions VIII: aluminium nuclei and beam momenta from ±3 GeV/c to ±15 GeV/c

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
² CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
³ Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
⁴ Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
⁵ Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
⁶ Institute for Nuclear Research RAS, Moscow, Russia

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

Received: 31 October 2011
Revised: 12 January 2012
Published online: 11 February 2012

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 _int thick stationary aluminium 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^∘. Cross-sections on aluminium nuclei are compared with cross-sections on beryllium, carbon, copper, tin, tantalum and lead nuclei.