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Results from the STAR Beam Energy Scan Program

The main aim of the beam energy scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) is to explore the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram. The specific physics goal is to search for the phase boundary and the QCD…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Lokesh Kumar

Highlights from the NA61/SHINE strong-interactions programme

NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose fixed-target facility at the CERN SPS. The main goals of the NA61/SHINE strong-interactions programme are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter as well as to study the properties of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-16 Magdalena Kuich

New baryonic and mesonic observables from NA61/SHINE

One of the main objectives of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is to study properties of strongly interacting matter. This paper presents new results on observables relevant for this part of the NA61/SHINE programme. These include…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Antoni Marcinek

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

Identified particle production and freeze-out properties in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC Beam Energy Scan program

The first phase of Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) was started in the year 2010 with the aim to study the several aspects of the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram. The Solenoidal Tracker…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-04-07 Sabita Das

Results on system size dependence of strangeness production in the CERN SPS energy range from NA61/SHINE

NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose fixed-target facility at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The main goals of the NA61/SHINE strong interactions program are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Piotr Podlaski

New Results on Pb-Au Collisions at 40 AGeV from the CERES/NA45 Experiment

In 1999 the CERES/NA45 ran at the CERN SPS with a beam energy of 40 GeV/nucleon. The data set comprises about 8.7 millions Pb-Au events with a trigger selection corresponding to approximately the most central 30% of the geometrical cross…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 K. Filimonov

Exploring Confinement

This note is an extended version of the contribution to the CERN Council Open Symposium on European Strategy for Particle Physics. It discusses an experimental programme to explore the QCD confinement phenomena at CERN with a new…

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Influence of Backside Energy Leakages from Hadronic Calorimeters on Fluctuation Measures in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

The phase diagram of the strongly interacting matter is the main research subject for different current and future experiments in high-energy physics. System size and energy scan programs aim to find a possible critical point. One of such…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-15 Andrey Seryakov

Recent results from the strong interactions program of NA61/SHINE

The NA61/SHINE experiment studies hadron production in hadron+hadron, hadron+nucleus and nucleus+nucleus collisions. The strong interactions program has two main purposes: study the properties of the onset of deconfinement and search for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-14 Szymon Puławski

The NA61/SHINE Experiment at the CERN SPS

The physics goals, the detector and its performance as well as status and plans of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator are presented.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Andras Laszlo

Flow and interferometry results from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{\textit{s}_{NN}}$ = 4.5 GeV

The Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was extended to energies below $\sqrt{\textit{s}_{NN}}$ = 7.7 GeV in 2015 by successful implementation of the fixed-target mode of operation in the STAR…

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STAR Results from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan-I

The Beam Energy Scan (BES) program is being pursued at RHIC to study the QCD phase diagram, and search for the possible QCD phase boundary and possible QCD critical point. The data for Phase-I of the BES program have been collected for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Lokesh Kumar

Energy dependence of hadron spectra and multiplicities in p+p interactions

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In order to reach these goals measurements of hadron production properties…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Szymon Puławski

New Results from the Cosmic-Ray Program of the NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the SPS accelerator at CERN is a unique facility for the study of hadronic interactions at fixed target energies. The data collected with NA61/SHINE is relevant for a broad range of topics in cosmic-ray physics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-17 Michael Unger , NA61 Collaboration

Physics of Heavy Ions Collisions: The Summary of Moriond-97

CERN dilepton experiments have provided the most exciting data. Strong enhancement at low masses observed by CERES and HELIOS3 indicate strong modification in the vector channel in matter compared to vacuum properties. NA50 data on $J/\psi$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 E. V. Shuryak

New results on event-by-event ratio fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions at CERN SPS energies

Event-by-event fluctuations of produced particle multiplicities are believed to be sensitive to a deconfinement phase transition and the critical point of strongly interacting matter. The NA49 collaboration has conducted a systematic study…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Tim Schuster

NA49 Energy Scan Results for Central Lead-Lead Collisions at the CERN SPS

The energy dependence of hadron production in central Pb-Pb collisions at SPS energies is presented and compared with data at lower and higher energies and with results from p-p interactions. It is observed that there is little change in…

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

Study of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the NA61/SHINE experiment

NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a fixed target experiment located at the CERN SPS. Its strong interactions program is devoted to study properties of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. For this goal the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-12-06 Maja Mackowiak-Pawlowska

Dileptons and photons from central heavy-ion collisions at CERN-SPS

A unique parameterization of secondary (thermal) dilepton and photon yields in heavy-ion experiments at CERN-SPS is proposed. Adding those thermal yields to background contributions the spectral shapes of the CERES/NA45, NA38, NA50,…

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