Main Injector Particle Production Experiment (MIPP) at Fermilab
Abstract
The Main Injector Particle Production Experiment at Fermilab uses particle beams of charged pions, kaons, proton and anti-proton with beam momenta of 5 to 90 GeV/c and thin targets spanning the periodic table from (liquid) hydrogen to uranium to measure particle production cross sections in a full acceptance spectrometer with charged particle identification for particles from 0.1 to 120 GeV/c using Time Projection Chamber, Time of Flight, multicell Cherenkov, and Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors and Calorimeter for neutrons. Particle production using 120 GeV/c protons from Main Injector on the MINOS target was also measured. We describe the physics motivation to perform such cross section measurements and highlight the impact of hadronic interaction data on neutrino physics. Recent results on forward neutron cross sections and analysis of MINOS target data are also presented.
- Publication:
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12th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams, and Betabeams: NuFact10
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3644327
- Bibcode:
- 2011AIPC.1382..256M
- Keywords:
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- neutrino interactions;
- hadron production;
- Cherenkov counters;
- calorimeters;
- data analysis;
- 13.15.+g;
- 13.66.Bc;
- 29.40.Ka;
- 29.40.Vj;
- 07.05.Kf;
- Neutrino interactions;
- Hadron production in e<sup>-</sup>e<sup>+</sup> interactions;
- Cherenkov detectors;
- Calorimeters;
- Data analysis: algorithms and implementation;
- data management