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NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment at the CERN Super-Proton- Synchrotron. The main goals of the experiment are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfnement. In…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-09 Bartosz Lysakowski

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

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

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

The problem of pinning down the critical point of strongly interacting matter still puzzles the community. One of the answers suspected to emerge in the near future will surely come from NA61/SHINE - a fixed-target experiment aiming to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrzej Wilczek

The muon puzzle -- an excess of muons relative to simulation predictions in ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray air showers -- has been reported by many experiments. This suggests that forward particle production in hadronic interactions is not…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-01 FASER Collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Xiaocong Ai , Saul Alonso Monsalve , John Anders , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Dhruv Chouhan , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Radu Dobre , Monica D'Onofrio , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Elena Firu , Haruhi Fujimori , Edward Galantay , Ali Garabaglu , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Yotam Granov , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Michael Holzbock , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Peter Krack , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Sebastian Laudage , Lorne Levinson , Botao Li , Jinfeng Liu , Yi Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Chiara Magliocca , Toni Mäkelä , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Matteo Milanesio , Théo Moretti , Keiko Moriyama , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Laurie Nevay , Ken Ohashi , Hidetoshi Otono , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Pawan Pawan , Brian Petersen , Titi Preda , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Juan Rojo , Hiroki Rokujo , André Rubbia , Jorge Sabater-Iglesias , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Christiano Sebastiani , Anna Sfyrla , Davide Sgalaberna , Mansoora Shamim , Savannah Shively , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Simon Thor , Eric Torrence , Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Monika Wielers , Benjamin James Wilson , Jialin Wu , Johannes Martin Wuthrich , Yue Xu , Daichi Yoshikawa , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang , Xingyu Zhao

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

A new experiemntal program to study hadron production in hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS has been recently proposed by the NA49-future collaboration. The physics goals of the program are: (i) search for the…

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

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

Knowledge of the neutrino flux produced by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline is essential to the neutrino oscillation and neutrino interaction measurements of the MINERvA, MINOS+, NOvA and MicroBooNE experiments at Fermi…

The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. These goals are to be achieved by performing a two dimensional phase diagram ($T$-$\mu_{B}$)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Tobiasz Czopowicz

The NA61/SHINE experiment is a fixed-target, broad acceptance facility at the CERN SPS. This contribution summarizes the most recent results from the strong interactions NA61/SHINE programme and presents news on the detector upgrade in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-21 Antoni Marcinek

This paper briefly presents the NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS and its measurements motivated by physics of strong interactions, neutrinos and cosmic rays.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-15 Marek Gazdzicki

Data on low-energy hadron production in collisions of nucleons, pions and kaons with light nuclei are needed for many astrophysical and accelerator applications. Modern simulations have reached a level of accuracy that the lack of detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giles Barr , Ralph Engel

NA61/SHINE is a multi-purpose experiment to study hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The experiment performs unique measurements for the physics of strong interactions as…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-05-13 Magdalena Kuich

The NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS is a new experiment to study hadron production in p+p p+A, h+A and A+A interactions. The main goal of the NA61 ion program is to explore the phase diagram (T - mu_B) of strongly interacting matter. In…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

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

Recent results from the HARP experiment on the measurements of the double-differential production cross-section of pions in proton interactions with beryllium, carbon and tantalum targets are presented. These results are relevant for a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-25 Boris A. Popov

This paper presents the multiplicity of neutral and charged hadrons produced in 90 GeV$/c$ proton-carbon interactions from a dataset taken by the NA61/SHINE experiment in 2017. Particle identification via dE/dx was performed for the charged…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-22 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 , W. Bryliński , J. Brzychczyk , M. Buryakov , A. F. Camino , Y. Chandak , 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 , K. E. Gollwitzer , O. Golosov , V. Golovatyuk , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , F. Guber , P. G. Hurh , S. Ilieva , A. Ivashkin , A. Izvestnyy , N. Karpushkin , M. Kiełbowicz , V. A. Kireyeu , R. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , Y. Koshio , 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 , 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 , 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. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , U. A. Shah , Y. Shiraishi , A. Shukla , M. Słodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , 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 , D. Veberič , O. Vitiuk , V. Volkov , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Witek , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev E. Zherebtsova , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina

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