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Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Oct 16;125(16):162001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.162001.

Measurement of the Low-Energy Antideuteron Inelastic Cross Section.

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S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson, M M Aggarwal, G Aglieri Rinella, M Agnello, N Agrawal, Z Ahammed, S Ahmad, S U Ahn, Z Akbar, A Akindinov, M Al-Turany, S N Alam, D S D Albuquerque, D Aleksandrov, B Alessandro, H M Alfanda, R Alfaro Molina, B Ali, Y Ali, A Alici, N Alizadehvandchali, A Alkin, J Alme, T Alt, L Altenkamper, I Altsybeev, M N Anaam, C Andrei, D Andreou, A Andronic, M Angeletti, V Anguelov, C Anson, T Antičić, F Antinori, P Antonioli, N Apadula, L Aphecetche, H Appelshäuser, S Arcelli, R Arnaldi, M Arratia, I C Arsene, M Arslandok, A Augustinus, R Averbeck, S Aziz, M D Azmi, A Badalà, Y W Baek, S Bagnasco, X Bai, R Bailhache, R Bala, A Balbino, A Baldisseri, M Ball, S Balouza, D Banerjee, R Barbera, L Barioglio, G G Barnaföldi, L S Barnby, V Barret, P Bartalini, C Bartels, K Barth, E Bartsch, F Baruffaldi, N Bastid, S Basu, G Batigne, B Batyunya, D Bauri, J L Bazo Alba, I G Bearden, C Beattie, C Bedda, N K Behera, I Belikov, A D C Bell Hechavarria, F Bellini, R 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Affiliations

  1. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India.
  2. Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, ?ež u Prahy, Czech Republic.
  3. Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany.
  4. Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden.
  5. Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
  6. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
  7. Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy.
  8. Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy.
  9. INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
  10. Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
  11. Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
  12. Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  13. NRC «Kurchatov Institute»-ITEP, Moscow, Russia.
  14. Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany.
  15. Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  16. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
  17. National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia.
  18. INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy.
  19. Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
  20. Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
  21. COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  22. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy.
  23. Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy.
  24. University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
  25. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.
  26. Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
  27. Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
  28. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  29. Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
  30. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany.
  31. Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
  32. Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
  33. Rudjer Boškovi? Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
  34. INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy.
  35. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
  36. SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France.
  37. Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
  38. Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France.
  39. INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy.
  40. Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea.
  41. Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India.
  42. Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France.
  43. Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
  44. Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
  45. Bose Institute, Department of Physics, Kolkata, India.
  46. Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India.
  47. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Catania, Italy.
  48. Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy.
  49. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy.
  50. Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy.
  51. Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
  52. Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom.
  53. Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
  54. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  55. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy.
  56. Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy.
  57. Wayne State University, Michigan, USA.
  58. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia.
  59. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India.
  60. Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.
  61. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  62. Yale University, Connecticut, USA.
  63. Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  64. Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
  65. Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France.
  66. NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia.
  67. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia.
  68. University of Tennessee, Tennessee, USA.
  69. Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania.
  70. Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India.
  71. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
  72. Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
  73. The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA.
  74. Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
  75. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
  76. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Cagliari, Italy.
  77. Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy.
  78. Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia.
  79. Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
  80. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
  81. Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin', Bari, Italy.
  82. Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy.
  83. Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
  84. Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia.
  85. Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria.
  86. iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa.
  87. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  88. The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland.
  89. Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  90. Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico.
  91. High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
  92. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Trieste, Italy.
  93. Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy.
  94. INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
  95. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India.
  96. Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France.
  97. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
  98. University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
  99. INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy.
  100. Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France.
  101. INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
  102. Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy.
  103. Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil.
  104. Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
  105. Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
  106. National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India.
  107. Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università, Salerno, Italy.
  108. Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy.
  109. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
  110. Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India.
  111. National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland.
  112. Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba.
  113. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
  114. Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
  115. Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
  116. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
  117. NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia.
  118. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece.
  119. Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  120. National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan.
  121. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  122. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia.
  123. A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia.
  124. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  125. Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan.
  126. Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
  127. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico.
  128. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
  129. Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia.
  130. Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia.
  131. KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey.
  132. Hochschule Worms, Zentrum für Technologietransfer und Telekommunikation (ZTT), Worms, Germany.
  133. Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  134. University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
  135. Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea.
  136. Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea.
  137. Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  138. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
  139. Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
  140. University of South-Eastern Norway, Tonsberg, Norway.
  141. China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China.
  142. Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy.
  143. Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
  144. Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
  145. INFN, Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy.
  146. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy.
  147. Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy.
  148. Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  149. Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia.
  150. Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
  151. Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland.
  152. Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India.
  153. Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
  154. Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
  155. Nara Women's University (NWU), Nara, Japan.
  156. Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France.
  157. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

PMID: 33124836 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.162001

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 sqrt[s_{NN}]=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⟩=17.4 and 31.8 is obtained. The measured inelastic cross section points to a possible excess with respect to the Glauber model parametrization used in geant4 in the lowest momentum interval of 0.3≤p<0.47  GeV/c up to a factor 2.1. This result is relevant for the understanding of antimatter propagation and the contributions to antinuclei production from cosmic ray interactions within the interstellar medium. In addition, the momentum range covered by this measurement is of particular importance to evaluate signal predictions for indirect dark-matter searches.

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