Title
Measurement of the Low-Energy Antideuteron Inelastic Cross Section
Date Issued
14 October 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Acharya S.
Adamová D.
Adler A.
Adolfsson J.
Aggarwal M.M.
Aglieri Rinella G.
Agnello M.
Agrawal N.
Ahammed Z.
Ahmad S.
Ahn S.U.
Akbar Z.
Akindinov A.
Al-Turany M.
Alam S.N.
Albuquerque D.S.D.
Aleksandrov D.
Alessandro B.
Alfanda H.M.
Alfaro Molina R.
Ali B.
Ali Y.
Alici A.
Alizadehvandchali N.
Alkin A.
Alme J.
Alt T.
Altenkamper L.
Altsybeev I.
Anaam M.N.
Andrei C.
Andreou D.
Andronic A.
Angeletti M.
Anguelov V.
Anson C.
Antičić T.
Antinori F.
Antonioli P.
Apadula N.
Aphecetche L.
Appelshäuser H.
Arcelli S.
Arnaldi R.
Arratia M.
Arsene I.C.
Arslandok M.
Augustinus A.
Averbeck R.
Aziz S.
Azmi M.D.
Badalà A.
Baek Y.W.
Bagnasco S.
Bai X.
Bailhache R.
Bala R.
Balbino A.
Baldisseri A.
Ball M.
Balouza S.
Banerjee D.
Barbera R.
Barioglio L.
Barnaföldi G.G.
Barnby L.S.
Barret V.
Bartalini P.
Bartels C.
Barth K.
Bartsch E.
Baruffaldi F.
Bastid N.
Basu S.
Batigne G.
Batyunya B.
Bauri D.
Bearden I.G.
Beattie C.
Bedda C.
Behera N.K.
Belikov I.
Bell Hechavarria A.D.C.
Bellini F.
Bellwied R.
Belyaev V.
Bencedi G.
Beole S.
Bercuci A.
Berdnikov Y.
Berenyi D.
Bertens R.A.
Berzano D.
Besoiu M.G.
Betev L.
Bhasin A.
Bhat I.R.
Bhat M.A.
Bhatt H.
Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
In this Letter, we report the first measurement of the inelastic cross section for antideuteron-nucleus interactions at low particle momenta, covering a range of 0.3≤p<4 GeV/c. The measurement is carried out using p-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon pair of sNN=5.02 TeV, recorded with the ALICE detector at the CERN LHC and utilizing the detector material as an absorber for antideuterons and antiprotons. The extracted raw primary antiparticle-to-particle ratios are compared to the results from detailed ALICE simulations based on the geant4 toolkit for the propagation of (anti)particles through the detector material. The analysis of the raw primary (anti)proton spectra serves as a benchmark for this study, since their hadronic interaction cross sections are well constrained experimentally. The first measurement of the inelastic cross section for antideuteron-nucleus interactions averaged over the ALICE detector material with atomic mass numbers A
Volume
125
Issue
16
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Física nuclear
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85094934276
PubMed ID
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE Collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centres and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) Collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation (ANSL), State Committee of Science and World Federation of Scientists (WFS), Armenia; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Science Fund (FWF): [M 2467-N36], and Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Entwicklung, Austria; Ministry of Communications and High Technologies, National Nuclear Research Center, Azerbaijan; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil; Ministry of Education of China (MOEC), Ministry of Science & Technology of China (MSTC) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China; Ministry of Science and Education and Croatian Science Foundation, Croatia; Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Cubaenergía, Cuba; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic; The Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences, the VILLUM FONDEN and Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), Denmark; Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Finland; Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Germany; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Research and Religions, Greece; National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary; Department of Atomic Energy Government of India (DAE), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST), University Grants Commission, Government of India (UGC) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India; Indonesian Institute of Science, Indonesia; Centro Fermi—Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Institute for Innovative Science and Technology, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science (IIST), Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI, Japan; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia (CONACYT) y Tecnología, through Fondo de Cooperación Internacional en Ciencia y Tecnología (FONCICYT) and Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Academico (DGAPA), Mexico; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netherlands; The Research Council of Norway, Norway; Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), Pakistan; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Centre and WUT ID-UB, Poland; Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Republic of Korea; Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, Institute of Atomic Physics and Ministry of Research and Innovation and Institute of Atomic Physics, Romania; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Russian Science Foundation and Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russia; Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Slovakia; National Research Foundation of South Africa, South Africa; Swedish Research Council (VR) and Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), Sweden; European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland; Suranaree University of Technology (SUT), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSDTA) and Office of the Higher Education Commission under NRU project of Thailand, Thailand; Turkish Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK), Turkey; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom; National Science Foundation of the USA (NSF) and United States Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics (DOE NP), USA.
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