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The SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment (NA61/SHINE) is a fixed-target hadron spectrometer at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron. It has a dedicated program to measure hadron-nucleus interactions with the goal of constraining the accelerator-based neutrino flux, which mainly originates from the not precisely known primary and secondary hadron production. NA61/SHINE’s previous measurements of protons colliding on thin carbon targets and a replica T2K target have significantly reduced the flux uncertainty in the T2K experiment. This contribution will present the recent results and ongoing hadron production measurements in NA61/SHINE, the upcoming data-taking with a replica LBNF/DUNE target, as well as the plan after the Long Shutdown 3 of the accelerator complex at CERN.
