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Highlights from the NA60 experiment

The NA60 experiment is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS. It has measured the dimuon yield in Indium--Indium collisions with an In beam of 158 AGeV/c and in p-A collisions with a proton beam of 400 and 158 AGeV/c. The results allow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-24 A. Ferretti , R. Arnaldi , R. Averbeck , K. Banicz , J. Castor , B. Chaurand , C. Cicalò , A. Colla , P. Cortese , S. Damjanovic , A. David , A. De Falco , A. Devaux , A. Drees , L. Ducroux , H. En'yo , M. Floris , A. Förster , P. Force , N. Guettet , A. Guichard , H. Gulkanyan , J. M. Heuser , M. Keil , L. Kluberg , C. Lourenço , J. Lozano , F. Manso , P. Martins , A. Masoni , A. Neves , H. Ohnishi , C. Oppedisano , P. Parracho , P. Pillot , G. Puddu , E. Radermacher , P. Ramalhete , P. Rosinsky , E. Scomparin , J. Seixas , S. Serci , R. Shahoyan , P. Sonderegger , H. J. Specht , R. Tieulent , G. Usai , R. Veenhof , H. Wöhri

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

Report from NA49

The signatures of the onset of deconfinement, found by the NA49 experiment at low SPS energies, are confronted with new results from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at BNL RHIC and CERN LHC results. Additionally, new NA49 results on…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

Spin Physics Detector project at JINR

The Spin Physics Detector at the constructing NICA collider (JINR, Dubna) is a universal facility to investigate the spin structure of the proton and deuteron and the other spin-related phenomena with polarized proton and deuteron beams at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-19 Alexey Guskov

High pt Measurements at the CERN SPS

The current experimental situation concerning high pt observables at the CERN SPS is reviewed. Recent data from the NA45, NA49 and NA57 collaborations are discussed and compared to earlier measurements by WA98 and NA45 at the same…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Blume

Design and Performance of the Data Acquisition System for the NA61/SHINE Experiment at CERN

This paper describes the hardware, firmware and software systems used in data acquisition for the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator. Special emphasis is given to the design parameters of the readout electronics for the 40m^3…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-07-28 Andras Laszlo , Ervin Denes , Zoltan Fodor , Tivadar Kiss , Stuart Kleinfelder , Csaba Soos , Dariusz Tefelski , Tamas Tolyhi , Gyorgy Vesztergombi , Oskar Wyszynski

Isospin-symmetry violation -- kaons and beyond (ISO-BREAK 25: summary and outlook)

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions during the ISO-BREAK 25 Workshop ``Isospin symmetry violation: kaons and beyond'', which was held at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce on October 23-25, 2025. We address the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-20 Marek Gazdzicki , Francesco Giacosa , Katarzyna Grebieszkow , David Blaschke , Marcus Bleicher , Bastian Brandt , Wojciech Brylinski , Tobiasz Czopowicz , Jim Drachenberg , Dipangkar Dutta , Francesca Ercolessi , Mark Gorenstein , Linqin Huang , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Nicolo Jacazio , Joseph Kapusta , Seweryn Kowalski , Maciej Piotr Lewicki , Manuel Lorenz , Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Vitalii Ozvenchuk , Oleksandra Panova , Roman Planeta , Krzysztof Piasecki , Milena Piotrowska , Rob Pisarski , Damian Pszczel , Johann Rafelski , Martin Rohrmoser , Andrzej Rybicki , Maciej Rybczynski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Subhasis Samanta , Mayank Singh , Joanna Maria Stepaniak , Grzegorz Stefanek , Herbert Stroebele , Tatjana Susa , Leonardo Tinti , Ludwik Turko , Oleksandr Vitiuk , Klaus Werner , Hanna Zbroszczyk

Search for the critical point of strongly-interacting matter in ${}^{40}$Ar + ${}^{45}$Sc collisions at 150A GeV/c using scaled factorial moments of protons

The critical point of dense, strongly interacting matter is searched for at the CERN SPS in ${}^{40}$Ar + ${}^{45}$Sc collisions at 150A GeV/c. The dependence of second-order scaled factorial moments of proton multiplicity distribution on…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-05-15 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 , P. Christakoglou , M. Ćirković , M. Csanád , J. Cybowska , T. Czopowicz , C. Dalmazzone , N. Davis , F. Diakonos , 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 , A. Kapoyannis , 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. Naskręt , S. Nishimori , V. Ozvenchuk , A. D. Panagiotou , 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 , M. Vassiliou , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , V. Volkov , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina , R. Zwaska

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

Measurement of $\phi$ meson production in p+p interactions at 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Results on $\phi$ meson production in inelastic p+p collisions at CERN SPS energies are presented. They are derived from data collected by the NA61/SHINE fixed target experiment, by means of invariant mass spectra fits in the $\phi \to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-20 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 , V. Golovatyuk , 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 , D. Manić , 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 , 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 , 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 , O. Wyszyński , L. Zambelli , E. D. Zimmerman , R. Zwaska

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

Measurement of event-by-event transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations using strongly intensive measures $\Delta[P_T, N]$ and $\Sigma[P_T, N]$ in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Results from the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS are presented on event-by-event transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations of charged particles, produced at forward rapidities in central Pb+Pb interactions at beam momenta 20$A$,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-10-21 NA49 Collaboration , T. Anticic , B. Baatar , J. Bartke , H. Beck , L. Betev , H. Bialkowska , C. Blume , B. Boimska , J. Book , M. Botje , P. Buncic , P. Christakoglou , P. Chung , O. Chvala , J. Cramer , V. Eckardt , Z. Fodor , P. Foka , V. Friese , M. Gazdzicki , K. Grebieszkow , C. Hohne , K. Kadija , A. Karev , V. Kolesnikov , M. Kowalski , D. Kresan , A. Laszlo , R. Lacey , M. van Leeuwen , M. Mackowiak-Pawlowska , M. Makariev , A. Malakhov , G. Melkumov , M. Mitrovski , S. Mrowczynski , G. Palla , A. Panagiotou , J. Pluta , D. Prindle , F. Puhlhofer , R. Renfordt , C. Roland , G. Roland , M. Rybczynski , A. Rybicki , A. Sandoval , A. Rustamov , N. Schmitz , T. Schuster , P. Seyboth , F. Sikler , E. Skrzypczak , M. Slodkowski , G. Stefanek , R. Stock , H. Strobele , T. Susa , M. Szuba , D. Varga , M. Vassiliou , G. Veres , G. Vesztergombi , D. Vranic , Z. Wlodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc

Letter of Intent: the NA60+ experiment

We propose a new fixed-target experiment for the study of electromagnetic and hard probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN SPS. The experiment aims at performing measurements of the dimuon spectrum from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-02 C. Ahdida , G. Alocco , F. Antinori , M. Arba , M. Aresti , R. Arnaldi , A. Baratto Roldan , S. Beole , A. Beraudo , J. Bernhard , L. Bianchi , M. Borysova , S. Bressler , S. Bufalino , E. Casula , C. Cicalo , S. Coli , P. Cortese , A. Dainese , H. Danielsson , A. De Falco , K. Dehmelt , A. Drees , A. Ferretti , F. Fionda , M. Gagliardi , A. Gerbershagen , F. Geurts , V. Greco , W. Li , M. P. Lombardo , D. Marras , M. Masera , A. Masoni , F. Mazzaschi , L. Micheletti , L. Mirasola , M. Mentink , P. Mereu , A. Milov , A. Mulliri , L. Musa , C. Oppedisano , B. Paul , M. Pennisi , S. Plumari , F. Prino , M. Puccio , C. Puggioni , R. Rapp , I. Ravinovich , A. Rossi , V. Sarritzu , B. Schmidt , E. Scomparin , S. Siddhanta , R. Shahoyan , M. Tuveri , A. Uras , G. Usai , H. Vincke , I. Vorobyev

Results from Pion-Carbon Interactions Measured by NA61/SHINE for Improved Understanding of Extensive Air Showers

The interpretation of extensive air shower measurements, produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays, relies on the correct modeling of the hadron-air interactions that occur during the shower development. The majority of hadronic particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Alexander E. Hervé

Event-by-event transverse momentum fluctuations in nuclear collisions at CERN SPS

The latest NA49 results on event-by-event transverse momentum fluctuations are presented for central Pb+Pb interactions over the whole SPS energy range (20A - 158A GeV). Two different methods are applied: evaluating the $\Phi_{p_{T}}$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Grebieszkow , C. Alt , T. Anticic , B. Baatar , D. Barna , J. Bartke , L. Betev , H. Białkowska , C. Blume , B. Boimska , M. Botje , J. Bracinik , R. Bramm , P. Bunčić , V. Cerny , P. Christakoglou , P. Chung , O. Chvala , J. G. Cramer , P. Csató , P. Dinkelaker , V. Eckardt , D. Flierl , Z. Fodor , P. Foka , V. Friese , J. Gál , M. Gaździcki , V. Genchev , G. Georgopoulos , E. Gładysz , S. Hegyi , C. Höhne , K. Kadija , A. Karev , D. Kikola , M. Kliemant , S. Kniege , V. I. Kolesnikov , E. Kornas , R. Korus , M. Kowalski , I. Kraus , M. Kreps , A. Laszlo , R. Lacey , M. van Leeuwen , P. Lévai , L. Litov , B. Lungwitz , M. Makariev , A. I. Malakhov , M. Mateev , G. L. Melkumov , A. Mischke , M. Mitrovski , J. Molnár , St. Mrówczyński , V. Nicolic , G. Pálla , A. D. Panagiotou , D. Panayotov , A. Petridis , W. Peryt , M. Pikna , J. Pluta , D. Prindle , F. Pühlhofer , R. Renfordt , C. Roland , G. Roland , M. Rybczyński , A. Rybicki , A. Sandoval , N. Schmitz , T. Schuster , P. Seyboth , F. Siklér , B. Sitar , E. Skrzypczak , M. Slodkowski , G. Stefanek , R. Stock , C. Strabel , H. Ströbele , T. Susa , I. Szentpétery , J. Sziklai , M. Szuba , P. Szymanski , V. Trubnikov , D. Varga , M. Vassiliou , G. I. Veres , G. Vesztergombi , D. Vranić , A. Wetzler , Z. Włodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek , I. K. Yoo , J. Zimányi

The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for light, feebly interacting particles. The SHiP experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-23 SHIP Collaboration

Multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in central Ar+Sc interactions at 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, and 150A GeV/c beam momenta measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

This paper presents results on multiplicity fluctuations of positively and negatively charged hadrons as well as net-electric charge fluctuations measured in central Ar+Sc interactions at beam momenta 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, and 150A…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-01 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. D. 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 , 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. László , M. Lewicki , G. Lykasov , J. R. Lyon , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , 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 , S. Nishimori , A. Olivier , V. Ozvenchuk , O. Panova , V. Paolone , I. Pidhurskyi , R. Płaneta , P. Podlaski , B. A. Popov , B. Pórfy , D. S. Prokhorova , D. Pszczel , S. Puławski , L. Ren , V. Z. Reyna Ortiz , D. Röhrich , M. Roth , Ł. Rozpłochowski , M. Rumyantsev , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Rybicki , D. Rybka , K. Sakashita , K. Schmidt , 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 , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Witek , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. Zherebtsova , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina

SPS energy scan results and physics prospects at FAIR

Experimental studies of nucleus-nucleus collisions in the whole SPS energy range are reviewed. Selected topics such as statistical properties of the hadronic phase, strangeness production, fluctuations and correlations are discussed with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 C. Hohne

The NA62 Experiment at CERN

The main physics goal of the NA62 experiment at CERN is to precisely measure the branching ratio of the kaon rare decay $K^+\rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar\nu$. This decay is strongly suppressed in the Standard Model and its branching ratio is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-20 Silvia Martellotti

Pion spectra in Ar+Sc interactions at SPS energies

This contribution discusses recent results from analysis of Ar+Sc interactions recorded with the NA61/SHINE detector at six beam momenta: 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, 150A GeV/c at the CERN SPS. Rapidity and transverse mass spectra of pions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-10 Maciej Lewicki