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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 to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-14 Maciej P. Lewicki

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 to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Maciej P. Lewicki

The NA61/Shine experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. These goals are to be achieved by performing a two dimensional phase diagram T-mu_B scan by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Bartosz Maksiak

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

Preliminary results on particle spectra and fluctuations in inelastic p+p interactions measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS are presented and its future ion program is discussed. We also show results on the excitation functions of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Anar Rustamov

Theoretical calculations locate the critical point of strongly interacting matter (CP) at energies accessible at the CERN SPS. Event-by-event transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations are considered as one of the most important…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-20 Tomasz Cetner , Katarzyna Grebieszkow

NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose, fixed-target hadron spectrometer at the CERN SPS. Its research program includes studies of strong interactions as well as reference measurements for neutrino and cosmic-ray physics. A significant advantage of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-09 Antoni Marcinek

The CERN SuperProtoSynchrotron (SPS) represents an ideal facility for fixed-target heavy-ion experiments exploring the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the region $200\le\mu_{\rm B}\le500$ MeV. It can deliver high-intensity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-07-24 E. Scomparin

NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a multi-purpose experimental facility to study hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. It recorded the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-03 N. Abgrall , O. Andreeva , A. Aduszkiewicz , Y. Ali , T. Anticic , N. Antoniou , B. Baatar , F. Bay , A. Blondel , J. Blumer , M. Bogomilov , M. Bogusz , A. Bravar , J. Brzychczyk , S. A. Bunyatov , P. Christakoglou , T. Czopowicz , N. Davis , S. Debieux , H. Dembinski , F. Diakonos , S. DiLuise , W. Dominik , T. Drozhzhova , J. Dumarchez , K. Dynowski , R. Engel , I. Efthymiopoulos , A. Ereditato , A. Fabich , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , A. Fulop , M. Gazdzicki , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , A. Grzeszczuk , F. Guber , A. Haesler , T. Hasegawa , M. Hierholzer , R. Idczak , S. Igolkin , A. Ivashkin , D. Jokovic , K. Kadija , A. Kapoyannis , E. Kaptur , D. Kielczewska , M. Kirejczyk , J. Kisiel , T. Kiss , S. Kleinfelder , T. Kobayashi , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , V. P. Kondratiev , A. Korzenev , P. Koversarski , S. Kowalski , A. Krasnoperov , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. Laszlo , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Mackowiak-Pawlowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , D. Maletic , D. Manglunki , D. Manic , A. Marchionni , A. Marcinek , V. Marin , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , M. Messina , St. Mrowczynski , S. Murphy , T. Nakadaira , M. Nirkko , K. Nishikawa , T. Palczewski , G. Palla , A. D. Panagiotou , T. Paul , W. Peryt , O. Petukhov , C. Pistillo , R. Planeta , J. Pluta , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadala , S. Pulawski , J. Puzovic , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , A. Redij , R. Renfordt , E. Richter-Was , A. Robert , D. Rohrich , E. Rondio , B. Rossi , M. Roth , A. Rubbia , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Sadovsky , K. Sakashita , M. Savic , K. Schmidt , T. Sekiguchi , P. Seyboth , D. Sgalaberna , M. Shibata , R. Sipos , E. Skrzypczak , M. Slodkowski , Z. Sosin , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , H. Stroebele , T. Susa , M. Szuba , M. Tada , V. Tereshchenko , T. Tolyhi , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Vassiliou , D. Veberic , V. V. Vechernin , G. Vesztergombi , L. Vinogradov , A. Wilczek , Z. Wlodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarz , O. Wyszynski , L. Zambelli , W. Zipper

For the first time in the CERN history two experimental programs devoted to study nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies are performed in parallel. In the SPS ion program, carried out by NA61/SHINE, interactions of light and medium…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Gazdzicki

This contribution presents final results on the energy dependence of multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in Ar+Sc interactions collected by the NA61/SHINE experiment. Fluctuations were analyzed using higher-order cumulant…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-02 Maćkowiak-Pawłowska

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

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

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

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-01 Bartosz Maksiak

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

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-10 Haradhan Adhikary

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

Recently, the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS has extended its program on physics of strong interactions by measurements of charm hadron production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. This charm program is here briefly summarized.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-06 Aleksandra Snoch , the NA61/SHINE collaboration

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

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

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