https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5184-z
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Measurement of meson resonance production in 
C interactions at SPS energies
The NA61/SHINE Collaboration
1
National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
2
Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
3
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
4
LPNHE, University of Paris VI and VII, Paris, France
5
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
6
Fachhochschule Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
7
University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
8
Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
9
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
10
Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Kielce, Poland
11
H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
12
National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
13
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
14
AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
15
University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
16
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
17
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
18
Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
19
Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia
20
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
21
National Research Nuclear University (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia
22
St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
23
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
24
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
25
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
26
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
27
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
28
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
29
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
* e-mail: michael.unger@kit.edu
Received:
23
May
2017
Accepted:
31
August
2017
Published online:
20
September
2017
We present measurements of 
, 
and K
spectra in 
C production interactions at 158 
and spectra at 350 using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. Spectra are presented as a function of the Feynman’s variable 
in the range 
and 
for 158 and 350 respectively. Furthermore, we show comparisons with previous measurements and predictions of several hadronic interaction models. These measurements are essential for a better understanding of hadronic shower development and for improving the modeling of cosmic ray air showers.
© The Author(s), 2017
