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Indications for the onset of deconfinement in nucleus nucleus collisions

The hadronic final state of central Pb+Pb collisions at 20, 30, 40, 80, and 158 AGeV has been measured by the CERN NA49 collaboration. The mean transverse mass of pions and kaons at midrapidity stays nearly constant in this energy range,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-09-08 Dominik Flierl

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

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

Measurement of negatively charged pion spectra in inelastic p+p interactions at $p_{lab}$ = 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c

We present experimental results on inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of negatively charged pions 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,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-04-08 SHINE Collaboration , N. Abgrall , A. Aduszkiewicz , Y. Ali , T. Anticic , N. Antoniou , B. Baatar , F. Bay , A. Blondel , J. Blumer , M. Bogomilov , A. Bravar , J. Brzychczyk , S. A. Bunyatov , O. Busygina , P. Christakoglou , T. Czopowicz , N. Davis , S. Debieux , H. Dembinski , F. Diakonos , S. Di Luise , W. Dominik , T. Drozhzhova , J. Dumarchez , K. Dynowski , R. Engel , A. Ereditato , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , A. Fulop , M. Gaździcki , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , A. Grzeszczuk , F. Guber , A. Haesler , T. Hasegawa , M. Hierholzer , R. Idczak , S. Igolkin , A. Ivashkin , D. Joković , K. Kadija , A. Kapoyannis , E. Kaptur , D. Kiełczewska , M. Kirejczyk , J. Kisiel , T. Kiss , S. Kleinfelder , T. Kobayashi , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , V. P. Kondratiev , A. Korzenev , P. Kovesarki , S. Kowalski , A. Krasnoperov , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. László , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , D. Manić , A. Marcinek , V. Marin , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , St. Mrówczyński , S. Murphy , T. Nakadaira , M. Nirkko , K. Nishikawa , T. Palczewski , G. Palla , A. D. Panagiotou , T. Paul , C. Pistillo , W. Peryt , O. Petukhov , R. Płaneta , J. Pluta , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadała , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , A. Redij , R. Renfordt , A. Robert , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , A. Rubbia , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Sadovsky , K. Sakashita , M. Savić , K. Schmidt , T. Sekiguchi , P. Seyboth , D. Sgalaberna , M. Shibata , R. Sipos , E. Skrzypczak , M. Słodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , H. Ströbele , T. Šuša , M. Szuba , M. Tada , V. Tereshchenko , T. Tolyhi , 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 , L. Zambelli , W. Zipper

Indications for the onset of deconfinement in nucleus nucleus collisions

The hadronic final state of central Pb+Pb collisions at 20, 30, 40, 80, and 158 AGeV has been measured by the CERN NA49 collaboration. The mean transverse mass of pions and kaons at midrapidity stays nearly constant in this energy range,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Flierl

Results from NA49

An overview of results from the CERN experiment NA49 is presented with emphasis on most recent measurements. NA49 has systematically studied the dependence of hadron production on energy and system size or centrality. At top-SPS energy the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Hoehne

The Horn, Kink and Step, Dale: from few GeV to few TeV

Rich experimental data have been collected in heavy-ion collisions at high energies to study the properties of strongly interacting matter. As the theory of strong interactions, QCD, predicts asymptotic freedom, the created matter at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Anar Rustamov

Prospects for open heavy-flavour and quarkonium measurements with NA60+

The high-intensity beams provided by the CERN SPS in a large range of energies offer a unique opportunity to investigate the region of the QCD phase diagram at high baryochemical potential. The NA60+ experiment, proposed for taking data…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-03 Roberta Arnaldi

Multiplicity fluctuations in Ar+Sc collisions at the CERN SPS from NA61/SHINE

Multiplicity fluctuations were investigated in Ar+Sc collisions at 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, 150A GeV/c using the NA61/SHINE detector at the SPS. Centrality selection is based on the nucleon-spectator energy in the forward hemisphere as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrey Seryakov

Measurements of hadron production in $\pi^{+}$ + C and $\pi^{+}$ + Be interactions at 60 GeV/$c$

Precise knowledge of hadron production rates in the generation of neutrino beams is necessary for accelerator-based neutrino experiments to achieve their physics goals. NA61/SHINE, a large-acceptance hadron spectrometer, has recorded…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-20 SHINE Collaboration , A. Aduszkiewicz , 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 , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , F. Guber , A. Haesler , S. N. Igolkin , S. Ilieva , A. Ivashkin , S. R. Johnson , K. Kadija , E. Kaptur , N. Kargin , E. Kashirin , M. Kiełbowicz , V. A. Kireyeu , V. Klochkov , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , A. Korzenev , V. N. Kovalenko , K. Kowalik , S. Kowalski , M. Koziel , A. Krasnoperov , W. Kucewicz , M. Kuich , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. László , T. V. Lazareva , M. Lewicki , K. Łojek , B. Łysakowski , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , A. Marchionni , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. O. Merzlaya , B. Messerly , Ł. Mik , G. B. Mills , S. Morozov , S. Mrówczyński , 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 , E. Richter-Wąs , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , B. T. Rumberger , M. Rumyantsev , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Rybicki , A. Sadovsky , K. Schmidt , I. Selyuzhenkov , A. Yu. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , M. Słodkowski , A. Snoch , 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 , F. F. Valiev , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , A. Wickremasinghe , Z. Włodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , L. Zambelli , E. D. Zimmerman , R. Zwaska

Study of the Onset of Deconfinement and Search for the Critical Point of Strongly Interacting Matter

Collisions of lead nuclei have been studied at the CERN SPS since 1994. A review is presented of the evidence for the production of deconfined matter, the location of the energy of the onset of deconfinement and the search for the critical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-01-25 Peter Seyboth

Recent results from the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter at the CERN SPS

Recent searches at the CERN SPS for evidence of the critical point of strongly interacting matter are discussed. Experimental results on theoretically expected signatures, such as event-to-event fluctuations of the particle multiplicity and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Grzegorz Stefanek

Signals of Deconfinement Transition in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

We discuss the energy dependence of hadron production in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Several `anomalies' in the energy dependence have been predicted as signals of the deconfinement phase transition and three of these signals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Mark I. Gorenstein

Recent results from the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter at the CERN SPS

Recent searches at the CERN SPS for evidence of the critical point of strongly interacting matter are discussed. Experimental results on theroretically expected signatures, such as event-to-event fluctuations of the particle multiplicity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-02-20 Peter Seyboth

Measurements of higher-order cumulants of multiplicity and net-electric charge distributions in inelastic proton-proton interactions by NA61/SHINE

This paper presents the energy dependence of multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in p+p interactions at beam momenta 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158 GeV/c. Results are corrected for the experimental biases and quantified with the use…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-18 NA61/SHINE , : , H. Adhikary , P. Adrich , K. K. Allison , N. Amin , E. V. Andronov , I. -C. Arsene , M. Bajda , Y. Balkova , D. Battaglia , A. Bazgir , S. Bhosale , M. Bielewicz , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , Y. Bondar , A. Borucka , 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 , 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 , N. Kargin , N. Karpushkin , E. Kashirin , M. Kiełbowicz , V. A. Kireyeu , 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 , S. Morozov , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , M. Naskręt , S. Nishimori , A. Olivier , V. Ozvenchuk , O. Panova , V. Paolone , O. Petukhov , I. Pidhurskyi , R. Płaneta , P. Podlaski , B. A. Popov , B. Pórfy , 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 , D. Rybka , 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 , Ł. Świderski , J. Szewiński , R. Szukiewicz , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , T. S. Tveter , M. Unger , M. Urbaniak , F. F. Valiev , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , O. Vitiuk , V. Volkov , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Witek , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. Zherebtsova , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina , R. Zwaska

Spectra and mean multiplicities of $\pi^{-}$ in $central$ ${}^{40}$Ar+${}^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$, 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, 75$A$ and 150$A$ GeV/$c$ beam momenta measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

The physics goal of the strong interaction program of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is to study the phase diagram of hadronic matter by a scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-26 SHINE collaboration , A. Acharya , H. Adhikary , 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 , 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 , 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. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. D. Zimmerman , R. Zwaska

Study of hard and electromagnetic processes at CERN-SPS energies: an investigation of the high-$\mu_{\mathbf{B}}$ region of the QCD phase diagram with NA60+

The exploration of the phase diagram of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) is carried out by studying ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The energy range covered by the CERN SPS ($\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle{NN}}} \sim$ 6-17 GeV) is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-12-20 M. Agnello , F. Antinori , H. Appelshäuser , R. Arnaldi , R. Bailhache , L. Barioglio , S. Beole , A. Beraudo , A. Bianchi , L. Bianchi , E. Bruna , S. Bufalino , E. Casula , F. Catalano , S. Chattopadhyay , A. Chauvin , C. Cicalo , M. Concas , P. Cortese , T. Dahms , A. Dainese , A. Das , D. Das , D. Das , I. Das , L. Das Bose , A. De Falco , N. De Marco , S. Delsanto , A. Drees , L. Fabbietti , P. Fecchio , A. Ferretti , A. Feliciello , M. Gagliardi , P. Gasik , F. Geurts , P. Giubilato , V. Greco , F. Grosa , H. Hansen , J. Klein , W. Li , M. P. Lombardo , M. Masera , A. Masoni , L. Micheletti , L. Musa , M. Nardi , H. Onishi , C. Oppedisano , B. Paul , S. Plumari , F. Prino , M. Puccio , L. Ramello , R. Rapp , I. Ravasenga , A. Rossi , P. Roy , E. Scomparin , S. Siddhanta , R. Shahoyan , T. Sinha , M. Sitta , H. Specht , S. Trogolo , R. Turrisi , A. Uras , G. Usai , E. Vercellin , J. Wiechula

Future facilities: the CERN SPS

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN has played a pioneering role in the study of heavy-ion collisions since 1986 and nowadays remains central to the exploration of the Quark Gluon Plasma. This document summarizes the present status…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-16 Roberta Arnaldi

European Strategy for Particle Physics 2026: the NA60+/DiCE experiment at the SPS

The exploration of the phase diagram of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) is carried out by studying ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The energy range covered by the CERN SPS ($\sqrt{s_{\rm {NN}}} \sim 6-17$ GeV) is ideal for the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-01 DiCE Collaboration

Femtoscopy at NA61/SHINE using symmetric L\'evy sources in central $^{40}$Ar+$^{45}$Sc from 40$A$ GeV/$c$ to 150$A$ GeV/$c$

In the recent decades of high energy physics research, it was demonstrated that strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) is created in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Investigation and understanding of properties of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-01 Barnabas Porfy