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Measurement of the production cross section of 31 GeV/$c$ protons on carbon via beam attenuation in a 90-cm-long target

The production cross section of 30.92 GeV/$c$ protons on carbon is measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS by means of beam attenuation in a copy (replica) of the 90-cm-long target of the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-09 SHINE Collaboration , A. Acharya , H. Adhikary , A. Aduszkiewicz , K. K. Allison , E. V. Andronov , T. Antićić , V. Babkin , M. Baszczyk , S. Bhosale , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , A. Brandin , A. Bravar , W. Bryliński , J. Brzychczyk , M. Buryakov , O. Busygina , A. Bzdak , H. Cherif , M. Ćirković , M. Csanad , J. Cybowska , T. Czopowicz , A. Damyanova , N. Davis , M. Deliyergiyev , M. Deveaux , A. Dmitriev , W. Dominik , P. Dorosz , J. Dumarchez , R. Engel , G. A. Feofilov , L. Fields , Z. Fodor , A. Garibov , M. Gaździcki , O. Golosov , V. Golovatyuk , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , F. Guber , A. Haesler , S. N. Igolkin , S. Ilieva , A. Ivashkin , S. R. Johnson , K. Kadija , N. Kargin , E. Kashirin , M. Kiełbowicz , V. A. Kireyeu , V. Klochkov , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , A. Korzenev , V. N. Kovalenko , S. Kowalski , M. Koziel , B. Kozłowski , A. Krasnoperov , W. Kucewicz , M. Kuich , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. László , T. V. Lazareva , M. Lewicki , K. Łojek , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. O. Merzlaya , B. Messerly , Ł. Mik , S. Morozov , Y. Nagai , M. Naskręt , V. Ozvenchuk , V. Paolone , M. Pavin , O. Petukhov , R. Płaneta , P. Podlaski , B. A. Popov , B. Porfy , M. Posiadała-Zezula , D. S. Prokhorova , D. Pszczel , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , M. Ravonel , R. Renfordt , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , B. T. Rumberger , M. Rumyantsev , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Rybicki , S. Sadhu , A. Sadovsky , K. Schmidt , I. Selyuzhenkov , A. Yu. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , M. Słodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , M. Strikhanov , H. Ströbele , T. Šuša , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , A. Toia , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , D. Uzhva , F. F. Valiev , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wojcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. D. Zimmerman , R. Zwaska

Results from Pion-Carbon Interactions Measured by NA61/SHINE for Improved Understanding of Extensive Air Showers

The interpretation of extensive air shower measurements, produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays, relies on the correct modeling of the hadron-air interactions that occur during the shower development. The majority of hadronic particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Alexander E. Hervé

Recent results from NA61/SHINE and NA49

Preliminary results on particle spectra and fluctuations in inelastic p+p interactions measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS are presented and its future ion program is discussed. We also show results on the excitation functions of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Anar Rustamov

Open charm measurements at CERN SPS energies with the new Vertex Detector of the NA61/SHINE experiment

The study of open charm meson production provides an efficient tool for detailed investigations of the properties of hot and dense matter formed in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The interpretation of the existing data from the CERN SPS…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Anastasia Merzlaya

Searches for Heavy Neutrinos at the CERN SPS

Searches for heavy neutrinos can be successfully performed by fixed target experiments at the CERN SPS. New results obtained by the NA62 and NA48/2 kaon experiments are summarized in this paper. The physics potential of future projects…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-04 Patrizia Cenci

Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ spectra in $^{40}$Ar+$^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$ to 150$A$ GeV/$c$

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron studies the onset of deconfinement in strongly interacting matter through a beam energy scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei of varied sizes. This paper presents…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-04-25 SHINE Collaboration , H. Adhikary , P. Adrich , K. K. Allison , N. Amin , E. V. Andronov , T. Antićić , I. -C. Arsene , M. Bajda , Y. Balkova , M. Baszczyk , D. Battaglia , A. Bazgir , S. Bhosale , M. Bielewicz , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , Y. Bondar , N. Bostan , A. Brandin , W. Bryliński , J. Brzychczyk , M. Buryakov , A. F. Camino , M. Ćirković , M. Csanád , J. Cybowska , T. Czopowicz , C. Dalmazzone , N. Davis , A. Dmitriev , P. von Doetinchem , W. Dominik , P. Dorosz , J. Dumarchez , R. Engel , G. A. Feofilov , L. Fields , Z. Fodor , M. Friend , M. Gaździcki , O. Golosov , V. Golovatyuk , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , F. Guber , S. N. Igolkin , S. Ilieva , A. Ivashkin , A. Izvestnyy , K. Kadija , N. Kargin , N. Karpushkin , E. Kashirin , M. Kiełbowicz , V. A. Kireyeu , H. Kitagawa , R. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , Y. Koshio , V. N. Kovalenko , S. Kowalski , B. Kozłowski , A. Krasnoperov , W. Kucewicz , M. Kuchowicz , M. Kuich , A. Kurepin , A. László , M. Lewicki , G. Lykasov , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , Z. Majka , A. Makhnev , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. Merzlaya , Ł. Mik , A. Morawiec , S. Morozov , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , M. Naskret , S. Nishimori , V. Ozvenchuk , O. Panova , V. Paolone , O. Petukhov , I. Pidhurskyi , R. Płaneta , P. Podlaski , B. A. Popov , B. Pórfy , M. Posiadała-Zezula , D. S. Prokhorova , D. Pszczel , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , R. Renfordt , L. Ren , V. Z. Reyna Ortiz , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , Ł. Rozpłochowski , B. T. Rumberger , M. Rumyantsev , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Rybicki , K. Sakashita , K. Schmidt , A. Yu. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , U. A. Shah , Y. Shiraishi , A. Shukla , M. Słodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , M. Strikhanov , H. Ströbele , T. Šuša , L. Swiderski , J. Szewiński , R. Szukiewicz , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , A. Toia , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , T. S. Tveter , M. Unger , M. Urbaniak , F. F. Valiev , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , V. Volkov , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina , R. Zwaska

News on strangeness production from the NA61/SHINE experiment

Strangeness production in high-energy hadronic and nuclear collisions continues to be one of the central topics in the study of strongly interacting matter. The data collected by the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS North Area allow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-22 Yuliia Balkova , Tatjana Šuša

NA57 main results

The CERN NA57 experiment was designed to study the production of strange and multi-strange particles in heavy ion collisions at SPS energies; its physics programme is essentially completed. A review of the main results is presented.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 G. E. Bruno

Pion emission from the T2K replica target: method, results and application

The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan needs precise predictions of the initial neutrino flux. The highest precision can be reached based on detailed measurements of hadron emission from the same target as used by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-11-29 N. Abgrall , A. Aduszkiewicz , T. Anticic , N. Antoniou , J. Argyriades , B. Baatar , A. Blondel , J. Blumer , M. Bogomilov , A. Bravar , W. Brooks , J. Brzychczyk , A. Bubak , S. A. Bunyatov , O. Busygina , P. Christakoglou , P. Chung , T. Czopowicz , N. Davis , S. Debieux , S. Di Luise , W. Dominik , J. Dumarchez , K. Dynowski , R. Engel , A. Ereditato , L. S. Esposito , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , A. Ferrero , A. Fulop , M. Gazdzicki , M. Golubeva , B. Grabez , K. Grebieszkow , A. Grzeszczuk , F. Guber , A. Haesler , H. Hakobyan , T. Hasegawa , R. Idczak , S. Igolkin , Y. Ivanov , A. Ivashkin , K. Kadija , A. Kapoyannis , N. Katrynska , D. Kielczewska , D. Kikola , M. Kirejczyk , J. Kisiel , T. Kiss , S. Kleinfelder , T. Kobayashi , O. Kochebina , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , V. P. Kondratiev , A. Korzenev , S. Kowalski , A. Krasnoperov , S. Kuleshov , A. Kurepin , R. Lacey , D. Larsen , A. Laszlo , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Mackowiak-Pawlowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , D. Maletic , A. Marchionni , A. Marcinek , I. Maris , V. Marin , K. Marton , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , M. Messina , St. Mrowczynski , S. Murphy , T. Nakadaira , K. Nishikawa , T. Palczewski , G. Palla , A. D. Panagiotou , T. Paul , W. Peryt , O. Petukhov , R. Planeta , J. Pluta , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadala , S. Pulawski , J. Puzovic , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , R. Renfordt , A. Robert , D. Rohrich , E. Rondio , B. Rossi , M. Roth , A. Rubbia , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Sadovsky , K. Sakashita , M. Savic , T. Sekiguchi , P. Seyboth , M. Shibata , R. Sipos , E. Skrzypczak , M. Slodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , C. Strabel , H. Strobele , T. Susa , M. Szuba , M. Tada , A. Taranenko , V. Tereshchenko , T. Tolyhi , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Vassiliou , D. Veberic , V. V. Vechernin , G. Vesztergombi , A. Wilczek , Z. Wlodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc , O. Wyszynski , L. Zambelli , W. Zipper , V. Galymov , M. Hartz , A. K. Ichikawa , H. Kubo , A. D. Marino , K. Matsuoka , A. Murakami , T. Nakaya , K. Suzuki , T. Yuan , E. D. Zimmerman

Energy Scan Program at the Cern SPS and An Observation of the Deconfinement Phase Transition in Nucleus--Nucleus Collisions

The history and the main results of the energy scan program at the CERN SPS are reviewed. Several anomalies in energy dependence of hadron production predicted as signals of deconfinement phase transition are observed and they indicate that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Marek Gazdzicki

Onset of Deconfinement in Pb+Pb Collisions at the Cern SPS

The NA49 fixed-target experiment studied high energy-density matter produced in nucleus-nucleus reactions at the CERN SPS. In central Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV the energy density at the early stage substantially exceeds the threshold for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Peter Seyboth

Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ spectra in $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions at beam momenta from 19$A$ to 150$A$ GeV/$c$ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) studies the onset of deconfinement in hadron matter by a scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei with various sizes at a set of energies covering the SPS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-30 SHINE Collaboration , A. Acharya , H. Adhikary , A. Aduszkiewicz , K. K. Allison , E. V. Andronov , T. Antićić , V. Babkin , M. Baszczyk , S. Bhosale , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , A. Brandin , A. Bravar , W. Bryliński , J. Brzychczyk , M. Buryakov , O. Busygina , A. Bzdak , H. Cherif , M. Ćirković , M. Csanad , J. Cybowska , T. Czopowicz , A. Damyanova , N. Davis , M. Deliyergiyev , M. Deveaux , A. Dmitriev , W. Dominik , P. Dorosz , J. Dumarchez , R. Engel , G. A. Feofilov , L. Fields , Z. Fodor , A. Garibov , M. Gaździcki , O. Golosov , V. Golovatyuk , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , F. Guber , A. Haesler , S. N. Igolkin , S. Ilieva , A. Ivashkin , S. R. Johnson , K. Kadija , N. Kargin , E. Kashirin , M. Kiełbowicz , V. A. Kireyeu , V. Klochkov , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , A. Korzenev , V. N. Kovalenko , S. Kowalski , M. Koziel , B. Kozłowski , A. Krasnoperov , W. Kucewicz , M. Kuich , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. László , T. V. Lazareva , M. Lewicki , K. Łojek , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. O. Merzlaya , B. Messerly , Ł. Mik , S. Morozov , S. Mrówczyński , Y. Nagai , M. Naskręt , V. Ozvenchuk , V. Paolone , O. Petukhov , R. Płaneta , P. Podlaski , B. A. Popov , B. Porfy , M. Posiadała-Zezula , D. S. Prokhorova , D. Pszczel , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , M. Ravonel , R. Renfordt , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , B. T. Rumberger , M. Rumyantsev , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Rybicki , S. Sadhu , A. Sadovsky , K. Schmidt , I. Selyuzhenkov , A. Yu. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , M. Słodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , M. Strikhanov , H. Ströbele , T. Šuša , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , A. Toia , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , D. Uzhva , F. F. Valiev , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , A. Wickremasinghe , Z. Włodarczyk , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , E. D. Zimmerman , R. Zwaska

Open Charm measurements at the NA61 experiment at CERN SPS

The strong interactions programme of the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS has been extended through the use of new silicon Vertex Detector which provides precise measurements of exotic particles with short lifetime. The detector was…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-11-01 Dag Larsen , Anastasia Merzlaya

HIKE, High Intensity Kaon Experiments at the CERN SPS

A timely and long-term programme of kaon decay measurements at a new level of precision is presented, leveraging the capabilities of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The proposed programme is firmly anchored on the experience built…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-01 E. Cortina Gil , J. Jerhot , N. Lurkin , T. Numao , B. Velghe , V. W. S. Wong , D. Bryman , L. Bician , Z. Hives , T. Husek , K. Kampf , M. Koval , A. T. Akmete , R. Aliberti , V. Büscher , L. Di Lella , N. Doble , L. Peruzzo , M. Schott , H. Wahl , R. Wanke , B. Döbrich , L. Montalto , D. Rinaldi , F. Dettori , A. Cardini , A. Lai , L. Bomben , S. Carsi , M. Prest , A. Selmi , G. Lezzani , P. Monti-Guarnieri , L. Perna , P. Dalpiaz , V. Guidi , A. Mazzolari , I. Neri , F. Petrucci , M. Soldani , L. Bandiera , A. Cotta Ramusino , A. Gianoli , M. Romagnoni , A. Sytov , M. Lenti , I. Panichi , G. Ruggiero , A. Bizzeti , F. Bucci , A. Antonelli , E. Di Meco , G. Lanfranchi , S. Martellotti , M. Martini , M. Moulson , D. Paesani , I. Sarra , T. Spadaro , G. Tinti , E. Vallazza , F. Ambrosino , R. Giordano , P. Massarotti , M. Napolitano , G. Saracino , C. Di Donato , G. D'Ambrosio , M. D'Errico , M. Mirra , S. Neshatpour , R. Fiorenza , I. Rosa , D. De Salvador , F. Sgarbossa , G. Anzivino , S. Germani , R. Volpe , P. Cenci , S. Cutini , V. Duk , P. Lubrano , M. Pepe , M. Piccini , F. Costantini , S. Donati , M. Giorgi , S. Giudici , G. Lamanna , E. Pedreschi , J. Pinzino , M. Sozzi , R. Fantechi , V. Giusti , F. Spinella , I. Mannelli , M. Raggi , A. Biagioni , P. Cretaro , O. Frezza , F. Lo Cicero , A. Lonardo , M. Turisini , P. Vicini , R. Ammendola , V. Bonaiuto , A. Fucci , A. Salamon , F. Sargeni , R. Arcidiacono , B. Bloch-Devaux , E. Menichetti , E. Migliore , C. Biino , F. Marchetto , D. Baigarashev , Y. Kambar , D. Kereibay , Y. Mukhamejanov , S. Sakhiyev , A. Briano Olvera , J. Engelfried , N. Estrada-Tristan , R. Piandani , M. A. Reyes Santos , K. A. Rodriguez Rivera , P. C. Boboc , A. M. Bragadireanu , S. A. Ghinescu , O. E. Hutanu , T. Blazek , V. Cerny , A. Kleimenova , Z. Kucerova , D. Martinez Santos , C. Prouve , M. Boretto , F. Brizioli , A. Ceccucci , M. Corvino , H. Danielsson , F. Duval , E. Gamberini , R. Guida , E. B. Holzer , B. Jenninger , G. Lehmann Miotto , P. Lichard , K. Massri , E. Minucci , M. Perrin-Terrin , V. Ryjov , J. Swallow , M. Van Dijk , M. Zamkovsky , R. Marchevski , A. Gerbershagen , J. R. Fry , F. Gonnella , E. Goudzovski , J. Henshaw , C. Kenworthy , C. Lazzeroni , C. Parkinson , A. Romano , J. Sanders , A. Shaikhiev , A. Tomczak , H. Heath , D. Britton , A. Norton , D. Protopopescu , J. B. Dainton , R. W. L. Jones , A. De Santo , F. Salvatore , P. Cooper , D. Coward , P. Rubin

The NA60+ experiment at the CERN SPS to study dilepton and heavy quark production at large $\mu_{B}$

The region of high baryonic densities of the QCD phase diagram is the object of several studies focused on the investigation of the order of the phase transition and the search for the critical point. The rare probes, which include…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-20 Maryna Borysova

Report from NA49

The most recent data of NA49 on hadron production in nuclear collisions at CERN SPS energies are presented. Anomalies in the energy dependence of pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions are observed. They suggest that the onset…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Gazdzicki

Multiplicity fluctuations of identified hadrons in p+p interactions at SPS energies

Study of energy and system size fluctuations of identified hadrons is one of the key goals of NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS. Results may allow to discover the critical point (CP) of strongly interacting matter as well as to uncover properties…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Maja Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , Andrzej Wilczek

Hadron production experiments

The HARP and NA61/SHINE hadroproduction experiments as well as their implications for neutrino physics are discussed. HARP measurements have already been used for predictions of neutrino beams in K2K and Mini-BooNE/SciBooNE experiments and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Boris A. Popov

Spin Physics Detector project at JINR

The Spin Physics Detector at the constructing NICA collider (JINR, Dubna) is a universal facility to investigate the spin structure of the proton and deuteron and the other spin-related phenomena with polarized proton and deuteron beams at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-19 Alexey Guskov

Open charm measurements with the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS

The strong interactions programme of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS has been extended through the use of new silicon Vertex Detector, which allows for reconstructing open charm particles. The detector was designed to identify…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-01-26 Dag Larsen , Anastasia Merzlaya