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NA49/NA61: results and plans on beam energy and system size scan at the CERN SPS

This paper presents results and plans of the NA49 and NA61/SHINE experiments at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron concerning the study of relativistic nucleus-nucleus interactions. First, the NA49 evidence for the energy threshold of…

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

Measurements of $\pi^-$ production in $^7$Be+$^9$Be collisions at beam momenta from 19$A$ to 150$A$GeV/$c$ in the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS

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

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-01-21 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 , 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. Wojcik , O. Wyszyński , E. D. Zimmerman , R. Zwaska

NA61/SHINE results on search for critical point

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is a multipurpose fixed-target spectrometer for charged and neutral hadron measurements. Its research program includes studies of strong interactions as well as reference measurements for neutrino…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-05-15 Nikolaos Davis

News from NA61/SHINE

The main goal of the NA61/SHINE strong interaction program is to search for the critical point in the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter and to investigate phenomena related to the onset of deconfinement. In recent years, the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-02-05 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

News from the strong interaction program of NA61/SHINE

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is a multipurpose fixed-target spectrometer for charged and neutral hadron measurements. Its research program includes studies of strong interactions as well as reference measurements for neutrino…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-08 Antoni Marcinek

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

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

Recent results from NA61/SHINE

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is a multipurpose fixed-target spectrometer for charged and neutral hadron measurements. Its research program includes studies of strong interactions as well as reference measurements for neutrino…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-10-01 Andrzej Rybicki

NA49 results on hadron production: indications of the onset of deconfinement ?

The NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS measured the energy and system size dependence of particle production in A+A collisions. A change of the energy dependence of several hadron production properties at low SPS energies is observed which…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin Lungwitz

The Old New Frontier: Studying the CERN-SPS Energy Range with NA61/SHINE

With the Large Hadron Collider entering its third year of granting us insight into the highest collision energies to date, one should nevertheless keep in mind the unexplored physics potential of lower energies. A prime example here is the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Marek Szuba

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

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

Search for a critical point of strongly-interacting matter in central $^{40}$Ar +$^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$-75$A$ GeV/$c$ beam momentum

The critical point of strongly interacting matter is searched for at the CERN SPS by the NA61/SHINE experiment in central $^{40}$Ar +$^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$, 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, and 75$A$ GeV/$c$. The dependence of the second-order…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-01-09 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. Csanad , 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 , A. Garibov , 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 , K. Marton , H. J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. Merzlaya , Ł. Mik , A. Morawiec , S. Morozov , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , M. Naskręt , S. Nishimori , V. Ozvenchuk , O. Panova , V. Paolone , O. Petukhov , I. Pidhurskyi , R. Płaneta , P. Podlaski , B. A. Popov , B. Porfy , 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 , Ł. Świderski , 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

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

Hadron production measurement from NA61/SHINE

New results from the NA61/SHINE experiment on the determination of charged hadron yields in proton-carbon interactions are presented. They aim to improve predictions of the neutrino flux in the T2K experiment. The analysis is based on the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Korzenev

Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, K$^\pm$, p and $\bar{\textrm{p}}$ spectra in proton-proton interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Measurements of inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of $\pi^\pm$, K$^\pm$, p and $\bar{\textrm{p}}$ produced in inelastic p+p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c ($\sqrt{s} = $ 6.3, 7.7, 8.8,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-06 SHINE Collaboration , A. Aduszkiewicz , Y. Ali , E. Andronov , T. Antićić , B. Baatar , M. Baszczyk , S. Bhosale , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , A. Brandin , A. Bravar , J. Brzychczyk , S. A. Bunyatov , O. Busygina , H. Cherif , M. Ćirković , T. Czopowicz , A. Damyanova , N. Davis , H. Dembinski , M. Deveaux , W. Dominik , P. Dorosz , J. Dumarchez , R. Engel , A. Ereditato , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , C. Francois , A. Garibov , M. Gaździcki , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , F. Guber , A. Haesler , A. E. Hervé , J. Hylen , S. Igolkin , A. Ivashkin , S. R. Johnson , K. Kadija , E. Kaptur , M. Kiełbowicz , V. A. Kireyeu , V. Klochkov , N. Knezević , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , V. P. Kondratiev , A. Korzenev , V. Kovalenko , K. Kowalik , S. Kowalski , M. Koziel , A. Krasnoperov , W. Kucewicz , M. Kuich , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. László , M. Lewicki , B. Lundberg , V. V. Lyubushkin , B. Łysakowski , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , D. Manić , A. Marchionni , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. Merzlaya , B. Messerly , Ł. Mik , G. B. Mills , S. Morozov , S. Mrówczyński , Y. Nagai , M. Naskręt , V. Ozvenchuk , V. Paolone , M. Pavin , O. Petukhov , C. Pistillo , R. Płaneta , P. Podlaski , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadała , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , R. Rameika , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , R. Renfordt , E. Richter-Wąs , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , B. T. Rumberger , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Rybicki , A. Sadovsky , K. Schmidt , I. Selyuzhenkov , A. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , M. Słodkowski , A. Snoch , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , M. Strikhanov , H. Ströbele , T. Šuša , M. Szuba , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , A. Toia , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , G. Vesztergombi , L. Vinogradov , M. Walewski , A. Wickremasinghe , C. Wilkinson , Z. Włodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc , O. Wyszyński , L. Zambelli , E. D. Zimmerman , R. Zwaska

Investigating the "kink" plot as a signal of the onset of deconfinement

One of the physics goals of the NA61/SHINE collaboration at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron is to study the phase diagram of hadronic matter. To this end, a series of heavy ion collision measurements are performed. It is believed that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-01-18 Michał Naskręt

Hadron Production at Fixed Target Energies and Extensive Air Showers

NA61/SHINE is a fixed-target experiment to study hadron production in hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS. Due to the very good acceptance and particle identification in forward direction, NA61/SHINE is well suited…

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