1305.3118 (G. Agakishiev et al.)

Inclusive pion and eta production in p+Nb collisions at 3.5 GeV beam
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G. Agakishiev, A. Balanda, D. Belver, A. Belyaev, J. C. Berger-Chen, A. Blanco, M. Boehmer, J. L. Boyard, P. Cabanelas, S. Chernenko, A. Dybczak, E. Epple, L. Fabbbietti, O. Fateev, P. Finocchiaro, P. Fonte, J. Friese, I. Froehlich, T. Galatyuk, J. A. Garzon, R. Gernhaeuser, K. Goebel, M. Golubeva, D. Gonzalez-Diaz, F. Guber, M. Gumberidze, T. Heinz, T. Hennino, R. Holzmann, A. Ierusalimov, I. Iori, A. Ivashkin, M. Jurkovic, B. Kaempfer, T. Karavicheva, I. Koenig, W. Koenig, B. W. Kolb, G. Kornakov, R. Kotte, A. Krasa, F. Krizek, R. Kruecken, H. Kuc, W. Kuehn, A. Kugler, A. Kurepin, V. Ladygin, R. Lalik, S. Lang, K. Lapidus, A. Lebedev, T. Liu, L. Lopes, M. Lorenz, L. Maier, A. Mangiarotti, J. Markert, V. Metag, B. Michalska, J. Michel, C. Muentz, L. Naumann, Y. C. Pachmayer, M. Palka, Y. Parpottas, V. Pechenov, O. Pechenova, J. Pietraszko, W. Przygoda, B. Ramstein, A. Reshetin, A. Rustamov, A. Sadovsky, P. Salabura, A. Schmah, E. Schwab, J. Siebenson, Yu. G. Sobolev, S. Spataro, B. Spruck, H. Stroebele, J. Stroth, C. Sturm, A. Tarantola, K. Teilab, P. Tlusty, M. Traxler, R. Trebacz, H. Tsertos, T. Vasiliev, V. Wagner, M. Weber, C. Wendisch, J. Wuestenfeld, S. Yurevich, Y. Zanevsky

Data on inclusive pion and eta production measured with the dielectron spectrometer HADES in the reaction p+93Nb at a kinetic beam energy of 3.5 GeV are presented. Our results, obtained with the photon conversion method, supplement the rather sparse information on neutral meson production in proton-nucleus reactions existing for this bombarding energy regime. The reconstructed e+e-e+e- transverse-momentum and rapidity distributions are confronted with transport model calculations, which account fairly well for both pi0 and eta production.

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