Status and plans of the ion program of NA61 at the CERN SPS
Abstract
The NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS is a new experiment to study hadron production in p+p p+A, h+A and A+A interactions. The main goal of the NA61 ion program is to explore the phase diagram (T - mu_B) of strongly interacting matter. In particular, we plan to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement and to search for the signatures of the critical point. A two-dimensional scan of the phase diagram will be performed by varying the energy (13A-158A GeV) and system size (p+p, Be+Be, Ar+Ca, Xe+La) of collisions. This paper summarizes the status and plans of the NA61/SHINE ion program. In particular the detector upgrades, data taking schedule and the first results on spectra and correlations are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.0742,
title = {Status and plans of the ion program of NA61 at the CERN SPS},
author = {Katarzyna Grebieszkow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0742},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Proceedings of "Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement - CPOD 2011", Wuhan, November 7-11, 2011, version accepted by Central European Journal of Physics