Large-angle production of charged pions with 3–12.9 GeV/<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>c</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math>incident protons on nuclear targets

Measurements of the double-differential charged pion production cross-section\nin the range of momentum 100 MeV/c &lt; p &lt; 800 MeV/c and angle 0.35 &lt; \\theta &lt;\n2.15 rad in proton-beryllium, proton-carbon, proton-aluminium, proton-copper,\nproton-tin, proton-tantalum and proton-lead collisions are presented. The data\nwere taken with the large acceptance HARP detector in the T9 beam line of the\nCERN PS. The pions were produced by proton beams in a momentum range from 3\nGeV/c to 12.9 GeV/c hitting a target with a thickness of 5% of a nuclear\ninteraction length.