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Measurements of hadron production in 90 GeV/c proton-carbon interactions

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

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

Pseudorapidity dependence of multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations in pp collisions at SPS energies

A search for the critical behavior of strongly interacting matter was performed at the NA61/SHINE experiment by studying event-by-event fluctuations of multiplicity and transverse momentum of charged hadrons produced in inelastic p+p…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-05-02 Daria Prokhorova

Pion emission from the T2K replica target: method, results and application

The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan needs precise predictions of the initial neutrino flux. The highest precision can be reached based on detailed measurements of hadron emission from the same target as used by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-11-29 N. Abgrall , A. Aduszkiewicz , T. Anticic , N. Antoniou , J. Argyriades , B. Baatar , A. Blondel , J. Blumer , M. Bogomilov , A. Bravar , W. Brooks , J. Brzychczyk , A. Bubak , S. A. Bunyatov , O. Busygina , P. Christakoglou , P. Chung , T. Czopowicz , N. Davis , S. Debieux , S. Di Luise , W. Dominik , J. Dumarchez , K. Dynowski , R. Engel , A. Ereditato , L. S. Esposito , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , A. Ferrero , A. Fulop , M. Gazdzicki , M. Golubeva , B. Grabez , K. Grebieszkow , A. Grzeszczuk , F. Guber , A. Haesler , H. Hakobyan , T. Hasegawa , R. Idczak , S. Igolkin , Y. Ivanov , A. Ivashkin , K. Kadija , A. Kapoyannis , N. Katrynska , D. Kielczewska , D. Kikola , M. Kirejczyk , J. Kisiel , T. Kiss , S. Kleinfelder , T. Kobayashi , O. Kochebina , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , V. P. Kondratiev , A. Korzenev , S. Kowalski , A. Krasnoperov , S. Kuleshov , A. Kurepin , R. Lacey , D. Larsen , A. Laszlo , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Mackowiak-Pawlowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , D. Maletic , A. Marchionni , A. Marcinek , I. Maris , V. Marin , K. Marton , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , M. Messina , St. Mrowczynski , S. Murphy , T. Nakadaira , K. Nishikawa , T. Palczewski , G. Palla , A. D. Panagiotou , T. Paul , W. Peryt , O. Petukhov , R. Planeta , J. Pluta , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadala , S. Pulawski , J. Puzovic , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , R. Renfordt , A. Robert , D. Rohrich , E. Rondio , B. Rossi , M. Roth , A. Rubbia , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Sadovsky , K. Sakashita , M. Savic , T. Sekiguchi , P. Seyboth , M. Shibata , R. Sipos , E. Skrzypczak , M. Slodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , C. Strabel , H. Strobele , T. Susa , M. Szuba , M. Tada , A. Taranenko , V. Tereshchenko , T. Tolyhi , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Vassiliou , D. Veberic , V. V. Vechernin , G. Vesztergombi , A. Wilczek , Z. Wlodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc , O. Wyszynski , L. Zambelli , W. Zipper , V. Galymov , M. Hartz , A. K. Ichikawa , H. Kubo , A. D. Marino , K. Matsuoka , A. Murakami , T. Nakaya , K. Suzuki , T. Yuan , E. D. Zimmerman

Status and prospects of the NA64 experiment at the CERN SPS

NA64 is a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS designed as a hermetic general purpose detector to search for Dark Sector physics in missing energy events from electron/positron, hadrons, and muon scattering off nuclei. In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-26 P. Crivelli

Elementary Hadronic Interactions at the CERN SPS

New data from the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS concerning hadron+proton and hadron+nucleus interactions are discussed and compared to nucleus+nucleus collisions. Detailed information on baryonic momentum distributions and nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 H. G. Fischer

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

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

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

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

Measurements of $\pi^{\pm}$ differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Measurements of particle emission from a replica of the T2K 90 cm-long carbon target were performed in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS, using data collected during a high-statistics run in 2009. An efficient use of the long-target…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-15 SHINE Collaboration , N. Abgrall , A. Aduszkiewicz , M. Ajaz , 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 , M. Ćirković , T. Czopowicz , N. Davis , S. Debieux , H. Dembinski , M. Deveaux , F. Diakonos , S. Di Luise , W. Dominik , J. Dumarchez , K. Dynowski , R. Engel , A. Ereditato , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , A. Garibov , M. Gaździcki , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , A. Grzeszczuk , F. Guber , A. Haesler , T. Hasegawa , A. E. Hervé , M. Hierholzer , S. Igolkin , A. Ivashkin , S. R. Johnson , K. Kadija , A. Kapoyannis , E. Kaptur , 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 , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , D. Manic , 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 , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , M. Naskręt , M. Nirkko , K. Nishikawa , A. D. Panagiotou , V. Paolone , M. Pavin , O. Petukhov , C. Pistillo , R. Płaneta , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadała-Zezula , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , A. Redij , R. Renfordt , E. Richter-Wąs , 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. Włodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc , O. Wyszyński , K. Yarritu , L. Zambelli , E. D. Zimmerman , M. Friend , V. Galymov , M. Hartz , T. Hiraki , A. Ichikawa , H. Kubo , K. Matsuoka , A. Murakami , T. Nakaya , K. Suzuki , M. Tzanov , M. Yu

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

Fragmentation Cross Sections for the Understanding of Cosmic-Ray Transport in the Galaxy: Results and Prospects from NA61/SHINE

Accurate measurements of cosmic-ray fragmentation cross sections are essential for maximizing the physics potential of precise measurements of secondary and primary cosmic-ray fluxes from current balloon and space-borne experiments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Michael Unger

Energy dependence of hadronic observables in central Pb+Pb reactions at the CERN SPS

In the recent years the NA49 experiment has collected data on Pb+Pb collisions at beam energies between 20 to 158 AGeV with the objective to cover the critical region of energy densities where the expected phase transition to a deconfined…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Blume

Measurements of $\Xi\left(1530\right)^{0}$ and $\overline{\Xi}\left(1530\right)^{0}$ production in proton-proton interactions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 17.3 GeV in the NA61/SHINE experiment

Double-differential yields of $\Xi\left(1530\right)^{0}$ and $\overline{\Xi}\left(1530\right)^{0}$ resonances produced in \pp interactions were measured at a laboratory beam momentum of 158~\GeVc. This measurement is the first of its kind…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-11-03 A. Acharya , H. Adhikary , K. K. Allison , N. Amin , E. V. Andronov , T. Antićić , V. Babkin , Y. Balkova 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 , M. Urbaniak , D. Uzhva , F. F. Valiev , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. D. Zimmerman , R. Zwaska

Studying the Interplay of Strong and Electromagnetic Forces in Heavy Ion Collisions with NICA

In the following we stress the advantages of the NICA research programme in the context of studying the spectator-induced electromagnetic phenomena present in proton-nucleus and heavy ion collisions. We point at the specific interest of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-01-23 Andrzej Rybicki , Antoni Szczurek , Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Iwona Sputowska

The NA62 experiment at CERN: status and perspectives

The future program of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is currently in advanced stage of development. The main goal of the experiment is to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare decay K^+ -> pi+\nu\nubar, by detecting approximately…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-02-01 Tommaso Spadaro

Measurement of the mass-changing, charge-changing and production cross sections of $^{11}$C, $^{11}$B and $^{10}$B nuclei in $^{12}$C+p interactions at 13.5 GeV/c per nucleon

We report results from a 2018 pilot run to study the feasibility of nuclear fragmentation measurements with the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS. These results are important for the interpretation of the production of light secondary…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-10-25 SHINE Collaboration

Nuclear Transparency Effect in the Strongly Interacting Matter

We discuss that the results of study of the nuclear transparency effect in nuclear-nuclear collisions at relativistic and ultrarelativistic energies could help to extract the information on new phases of the strongly interacting matter as…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-04-03 M. Ajaz , M. K. Suleymanov , O. B. Abdinov , Ali Zaman , K. H. Khan , Z. Wazir , Sh. Khalilova

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