First measurement of the total inelastic cross section of positively charged kaons on argon at energies between 5.0 and 7.5 GeV

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Publication date 01-11-2024
Journal Physical Review D
Article number 092011
Volume | Issue number 110 | 9
Number of pages 22
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract ProtoDUNE Single-Phase (ProtoDUNE-SP) is a 770-ton liquid argon time projection chamber that operated in a hadron test beam at the CERN Neutrino Platform in 2018. We present a measurement of the total inelastic cross section of charged kaons on argon as a function of kaon energy using 6 and 7  GeV/𝑐 beam momentum settings. The flux-weighted average of the extracted inelastic cross section at each beam momentum setting was measured to be 380±26  mbarns for the 6  GeV/𝑐 setting and 379 ± 35  mbarns for the 7  GeV/𝑐 setting.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.092011
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