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Measurement of Antiproton Production in p-He Collisions at sNN =110 GeV

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Abstract

The cross section for prompt antiproton production in collisions of protons with an energy of 6.5 TeV incident on helium nuclei at rest is measured with the LHCb experiment from a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.5 nb-1. The target is provided by injecting helium gas into the LHC beam line at the LHCb interaction point. The reported results, covering antiproton momenta between 12 and 110 GeV/c, represent the first direct determination of the antiproton production cross section in p-He collisions, and impact the interpretation of recent results on antiproton cosmic rays from space-borne experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Article number222001
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume121
Issue number22
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2018

Funding

We are grateful to our colleagues from the cosmic ray community, O. Adriani, F. Donato, L. Bonechi and A. Tricomi, for suggesting this measurement, to T. Pierog and S. Ostapchenko for their advice on the theoretical models for antiproton production, and to B. Ward and A. V. Gramolin for their advice on the model and uncertainty for scattering. We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MSHE (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (USA). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhóne-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program (China); RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom); Laboratory Directed Research and Development program of LANL (USA).

FundersFunder number
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
OCEVU
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Leverhulme Trust
MSHE
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Yandex LLC
Russian Science Foundation
Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Recruitment Program of Global Experts
XuntaGal
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS
Royal Society
Sociedad Española de Reumatología
European Research Council
EPLANET
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/N000250/1, LHCb Upgrades, GRIDPP, ST/J004332/1, ST/N000447/1, 1681016, ST/K003410/1, 1796908, ST/N000463/1, LHCb, ST/N000234/1, ST/N000455/1, ST/L003163/1, ST/N000242/1
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme647390
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung166208

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      SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

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