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NA61/SHINE low energy program at SPS

Status of the new experimental program to study hadron production in hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS will be presented. A physics motivation will be given for the part of the program related to the physics of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Grzegorz Stefanek

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

Measurements of Hadron Production in Pion-Carbon Interactions with NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment designed to study hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions at the CERN Super-Proton-Synchrotron. In this proceeding we present results on spectra of identified hadrons produced…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Raul R. Prado

Status of the NA61 (SHINE) experiment at CERN

A precise measurement of the hadron production from interactions of 30 GeV protons on carbon target is performed by NA61 (SHINE) experiment at the CERN SPS. The inclusive spectra of pions and kaons on the carbon target obtained from NA61…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-22 Magdalena Posiadala , for NA61 , Collaboration

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

Open charm measurements in NA61/SHINE at CERN SPS

The measurements of open charm production was proposed as an important tool to investigate the properties of hot and dense matter formed in nucleus-nucleus collisions as well as to provide the means for model independent interpretation of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Pawel Staszel

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

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

Pion production in p+p interactions and Be+Be collisions at the CERN SPS energies

Evidence for the onset of deconfinement in central Pb+Pb collisions was reported by NA49 in fixed target measurements at beam momentum 30A GeV/c. This observation motivated the NA61/SHINE program started in 2009 at the CERN SPS, which, in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Antoni Aduszkiewicz

Preliminary results of charged pions cross-section in proton carbon interaction at 30 GeV measured with the NA61/SHINE detector

As the intensity of neutrino beams produced at accelerators increases, important systematic errors due to poor knowledge of production cross sections for pions and kaons arise. Among other goals, the NA61/SHINE (SHINE=SPS Heavy Ion and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-17 Sebastien Murphy

Cross Sections and Charged Pion Spectra in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c

As neutrino long baseline experiments enter a new domain of precision, the careful study of systematic errors due to poor knowledge of production cross sections for pions and kaons require more dedicated measurements for precise neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 L. S. Esposito

Hadron production measurements at NA61/SHINE for precise determination of accelerator neutrino fluxes

The total systematic uncertainty of the neutrino flux in accelerator-based neutrino experiments is dominated by the Monte Carlo modeling of hadronic interactions. Direct hadron production measurements for T2K and Fermilab neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-11-03 Simona Ilieva

Recent results from NA61/SHINE

The research programme of the NA61 collaboration covers a wide range of hadronic physics in the CERN SPS energy range, encompassesing measurements of hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus as well as nucleus-nucleus collisions. The latter are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-11-06 Szymon Pulawski

Search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter

The existence and location of the QCD critical point is an object of both experimental and theoretical studies. The comprehensive data collected by NA61/SHINE during a two-dimensional scan in beam momentum (13A-150A GeV/c) and system size…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-22 Haradhan Adhikary

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

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

Results of charged pions cross-section in proton carbon interaction at 31 GeV/c measured with the NA61/SHINE detector

Among other goals, the NA61/SHINE (SHINE=SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) detector at CERN SPS aims at precision hadro-production measurements to characterise the neutrino beam of the T2K experiment at J-PARC. These measurements are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Sebastien Murphy

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

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

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