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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

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

The heavy-ion programme of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS has been expanded to allow precise measurements of exotic particles with short lifetime. The study of open charm meson production is a sensitive tool for new detailed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-10 Anastasia Merzlaya

Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $K^0_S$, $\Lambda$ and proton production in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/$c$ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Measurements of hadron production in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c are performed using the NA61/ SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data collected in 2009 using a graphite target with a thickness of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-02-25 N. Abgrall , A. Aduszkiewicz , Y. Ali , E. Andronov , T. Antićić , N. Antoniou , B. Baatar , F. Bay , A. Blondel , J. Blümer , M. Bogomilov , A. Brandin , A. Bravar , J. Brzychczyk , S. A. Bunyatov , O. Busygina , P. Christakoglou , T. Czopowicz , A. Damyanova , N. Davis , S. Debieux , H. Dembinski , M. Deveaux , F. Diakonos , S. Di Luise , W. Dominik , T. Drozhzhova , J. Dumarchez , K. Dynowski , R. Engel , A. Ereditato , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , M. Gaździcki , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , A. Grzeszczuk , F. Guber , A. Haesler , T. Hasegawa , A. Herve , M. Hierholzer , S. Igolkin , A. Ivashkin , D. Joković , S. R. Johnson , K. Kadija , A. Kapoyannis , E. Kaptur , D. Kiełczewska , J. Kisiel , T. Kobayashi , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , V. P. Kondratiev , A. Korzenev , K. Kowalik , S. Kowalski , M. Koziel , A. Krasnoperov , M. Kuich , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. László , M. Lewicki , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , A. Marchionni , D. Manić , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , B. Messerly , G. B. Mills , S. Morozov , S. Mrówczyński , S. Murphy , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , M. Naskret , M. Nirkko , K. Nishikawa , T. Palczewski , A. D. Panagiotou , V. Paolone , M. Pavin , O. Petukhov , C. Pistillo , R. Płaneta , J. Pluta , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadała-Zezula , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , A. Redij , R. Renfordt , E. Richter-Was , A. Robert , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , A. Rubbia , B. T. Rumberger , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Sadovsky , K. Sakashita , R. Sarnecki , K. Schmidt , T. Sekiguchi , I. Selyuzhenkov , A. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , D. Sgalaberna , M. Shibata , M. Słodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , H. Ströbele , T. Šuša , M. Szuba , M. Tada , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Vassiliou , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , G. Vesztergombi , L. Vinogradov , A. Wilczek , Z. Wlodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc , O. Wyszyński , K. Yarritu , L. Zambelli , E. D. Zimmerman

Energy dependence of hadron spectra and yields in p+p and $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS

The NA61/SHINE programme on strong interactions covers the study of the onset of deconfinement and aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter by performing an energy and system-size scan over the full CERN SPS…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-17 D. T. Larsen

Status report of the NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS

The aim of the NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS is to measure direct CP violation in neutral kaon decays thus determining the parameter $\epsilon'/\epsilon$ with an accuracy of $2\times 10^{-4}$. The advantages of NA48 with respect to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-02-24 Cinzia Talamonti

NA49 and NA61/SHINE experiments: results and perspectives

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) covers one of the most interesting regions of the QCD phase diagram $(T - \mu_B)$. On the one hand there are indications that the energy threshold for deconfinement is reached already at low SPS energies.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-05-05 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

Rare Kaon Decays with NA48/2 and NA62 at CERN

The Kaon physics program at CERN will be shortly presented, addressing the most recent results from the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at the CERN SPS and future prospects.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-19 Patrizia Cenci

Heavy-ion physics at the CERN SPS H2: NA35, NA49 and NA61/SHINE (with personal recollections)

This review presents a unified account of the NA35, NA49, and NA61/SHINE experiments, which together form a continuous programme of heavy-ion studies conducted at the H2 beamline of the CERN North Area using the SPS accelerator. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-10 Marek Gazdzicki

NA61/SHINE results on Bose-Einstein correlations

One of the main goals of NA61/SHINE is the investigation of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. NA61/SHINE observes collisions of various nuclei at different energies, allowing to study the same phenomena and observables in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-11-12 Barnabas Porfy

The onsets of deconfinement and fireball of NA61/SHINE

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is pursuing a rich programme on strong interactions, covering the study of onset of deconfinement and aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter by performing an energy and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Dag Larsen

NA61/SHINE shining more light on the onset of deconfinement

NA61/SHINE has recently completed data acquisition for its original programme on strong interactions. The Collaboration has gathered rich data on collisions of ions in a two-dimensional scan: varying the beam energy and the sizes of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-02-04 Maciej P. Lewicki , Ludwik Turko

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutrinos. Hidden particles are predicted by a large number of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-21 SHiP Collaboration , M. Anelli , S. Aoki , G. Arduini , J. J. Back , A. Bagulya , W. Baldini , A. Baranov , G. J. Barker , S. Barsuk , M. Battistin , J. Bauche , A. Bay , V. Bayliss , L. Bellagamba , G. Bencivenni , M. Bertani , O. Bezshyyko , D. Bick , N. Bingefors , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , A. Boyarsky , D. Bonacorsi , D. Bondarenko , W. Bonivento , J. Borburgh , T. Bradshaw , R. Brenner , D. Breton , N. Brook , M. Bruschi , A. Buonaura , S. Buontempo , S. Cadeddu , A. Calcaterra , M. Calviani , M. Campanelli , C. Capoccia , A. Cecchetti , A. Chatterjee , J. Chauveau , A. Chepurnov , M. Chernyavskiy , P. Ciambrone , C. Cicalo , G. Conti , K. Cornelis , M. Courthold , M. G. Dallavalle , N. D'Ambrosio , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , L. Dedenko , A. Di Crescenzo , N. Di Marco , C. Dib , J. Dietrich , H. Dijkstra , D. Domenici , S. Donskov , D. Druzhkin , J. Ebert , U. Egede , A. Egorov , V. Egorychev , M. A. El Alaoui , T. Enik , A. Etenko , F. Fabbri , L. Fabbri , G. Fedorova , G. Felici , M. Ferro-Luzzi , R. A. Fini , M. Franke , M. Fraser , G. Galati , B. Giacobbe , B. Goddard , L. Golinka-Bezshyyko , D. Golubkov , A. Golutvin , D. Gorbunov , E. Graverini , J-L Grenard , A. M. Guler , C. Hagner , H. Hakobyan , J. C. Helo , E. van Herwijnen , D. Horvath , M. Iacovacci , G. Iaselli , R. Jacobsson , I. Kadenko , M. Kamiscioglu , C. Kamiscioglu , G. Khaustov , A. Khotjansev , B. Kilminster , V. Kim , N. Kitagawa , K. Kodama , A. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , M. Komatsu , N. Konovalova , S. Koretskiy , I. Korolko , A. Korzenev , S. Kovalenko , Y. Kudenko , E. Kuznetsova , H. Lacker , A. Lai , G. Lanfranchi , A. Lauria , H. Lebbolo , J. -M. Levy , L. Lista , P. Loverre , A. Lukiashin , V. E. Lyubovitskij , A. Malinin , M. Manfredi , A. Perillo-Marcone , A. Marrone , R. Matev , E. N. Messomo , P. Mermod , S. Mikado , Yu. Mikhaylov , J. Miller , D. Milstead , O. Mineev , R. Mingazheva , G. Mitselmakher , M. Miyanishi , P. Monacelli , A. Montanari , M. C. Montesi , G. Morello , K. Morishima , S. Movtchan , V. Murzin , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , N. Nurakhov , B. Obinyakov , K. Ocalan , S. Ogawa , V. Oreshkin , A. Orlov , J. Osborne , P. Pacholek , J. Panman , A. Paoloni , L. Paparella , A. Pastore , M. Patel , K. Petridis , M. Petrushin , M. Poli-Lener , N. Polukhina , V. Polyakov , M. Prokudin , G. Puddu , F. Pupilli , F. Rademakers , A. Rakai , T. Rawlings , F. Redi , S. Ricciardi , R. Rinaldesi , T. Roganova , A. Rogozhnikov , H. Rokujo , A. Romaniouk , G. Rosa , I. Rostovtseva , T. Rovelli , O. Ruchayskiy , T. Ruf , G. Saitta , V. Samoylenko , V. Samsonov , A. Sanz Ull , A. Saputi , O. Sato , W. Schmidt-Parzefall , N. Serra , S. Sgobba , M. Shaposhnikov , P. Shatalov , A. Shaykhiev , L. Shchutska , V. Shevchenko , H. Shibuya , Y. Shitov , S. Silverstein , S. Simone , M. Skorokhvatov , S. Smirnov , E. Solodko , V. Sosnovtsev , R. Spighi , M. Spinetti , N. Starkov , B. Storaci , C. Strabel , P. Strolin , S. Takahashi , P. Teterin , V. Tioukov , D. Tommasini , D. Treille , R. Tsenov , T. Tshchedrina , A. Ustyuzhanin , F. Vannucci , V. Venturi , M. Villa , Heinz Vincke , Helmut Vincke , M. Vladymyrov , S. Xella , M. Yalvac , N. Yershov , D. Yilmaz , A. U. Yilmazer , G. Vankova-Kirilova , Y. Zaitsev , A. Zoccoli

Studying the onset of deconfinement at NA61/SHINE

The study of particle production in high-energy collisions of heavy ions offers a unique opportunity to explore the phase transition of strongly interacting matter. The NA61/SHINE experiment, a fixed-target setup located in the CERN SPS…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-26 Syed Uzair Ahmed Shah

Measurements of $\pi^{\pm}$ differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Measurements of particle emission from a replica of the T2K 90 cm-long carbon target were performed in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS, using data collected during a high-statistics run in 2009. An efficient use of the long-target…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-15 SHINE Collaboration , N. Abgrall , A. Aduszkiewicz , M. Ajaz , Y. Ali , E. Andronov , T. Antićić , N. Antoniou , B. Baatar , F. Bay , A. Blondel , J. Blümer , M. Bogomilov , A. Brandin , A. Bravar , J. Brzychczyk , S. A. Bunyatov , O. Busygina , P. Christakoglou , M. Ćirković , T. Czopowicz , N. Davis , S. Debieux , H. Dembinski , M. Deveaux , F. Diakonos , S. Di Luise , W. Dominik , J. Dumarchez , K. Dynowski , R. Engel , A. Ereditato , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , A. Garibov , M. Gaździcki , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , A. Grzeszczuk , F. Guber , A. Haesler , T. Hasegawa , A. E. Hervé , M. Hierholzer , S. Igolkin , A. Ivashkin , S. R. Johnson , K. Kadija , A. Kapoyannis , E. Kaptur , J. Kisiel , T. Kobayashi , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , V. P. Kondratiev , A. Korzenev , K. Kowalik , S. Kowalski , M. Koziel , A. Krasnoperov , M. Kuich , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. László , M. Lewicki , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , D. Manic , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , B. Messerly , G. B. Mills , S. Morozov , S. Mrówczyński , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , M. Naskręt , M. Nirkko , K. Nishikawa , A. D. Panagiotou , V. Paolone , M. Pavin , O. Petukhov , C. Pistillo , R. Płaneta , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadała-Zezula , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , A. Redij , R. Renfordt , E. Richter-Wąs , A. Robert , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , A. Rubbia , B. T. Rumberger , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Sadovsky , K. Sakashita , R. Sarnecki , K. Schmidt , T. Sekiguchi , I. Selyuzhenkov , A. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , D. Sgalaberna , M. Shibata , M. Słodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , H. Ströbele , T. Šuša , M. Szuba , M. Tada , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Vassiliou , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , G. Vesztergombi , L. Vinogradov , A. Wilczek , Z. Włodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc , O. Wyszyński , K. Yarritu , L. Zambelli , E. D. Zimmerman , M. Friend , V. Galymov , M. Hartz , T. Hiraki , A. Ichikawa , H. Kubo , K. Matsuoka , A. Murakami , T. Nakaya , K. Suzuki , M. Tzanov , M. Yu

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

Prospects for the NA60+ experiment at the CERN SPS

A new heavy-ion experiment on fixed target, NA60+, has been proposed at the CERN SPS for data taking in the next years. Its main goals will be focused on precision studies of thermal dimuons, heavy quark and strangeness production in Pb-Pb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-16 Alessandro De Falco

Searching for the critical point of strongly interacting matter in nucleus-nucleus collisions at CERN SPS

The search for experimental signatures of the critical point (CP) of strongly interacting matter is one of the main objectives of the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS. In the course of the experiment, a beam momentum and system size scan…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-02-18 Nikolaos Davis

Methods to study event-by-event fluctuations in the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS

Theoretical calculations locate the critical point of strongly interacting matter (CP) at energies accessible at the CERN SPS. Event-by-event transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations are considered as one of the most important…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-20 Tomasz Cetner , Katarzyna Grebieszkow

The SPS ion program and the first LHC data

For the first time in the CERN history two experimental programs devoted to study nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies are performed in parallel. In the SPS ion program, carried out by NA61/SHINE, interactions of light and medium…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Gazdzicki

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