Related papers: NA61/SHINE overview
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…
NA60+ is a fixed target experiment proposed in the framework of the Physics Beyond Colliders programme at CERN. It aims to precisely measure the hard and electromagnetic probes in nuclear collisions. Initially proposed for the underground…
The exploration of the QCD phase diagram particularly the search for a phase transition from hadronic to partonic degrees of freedom and possibly a critical endpoint, is one of the most challenging tasks in present heavy-ion physics. As…
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…
A new heavy-ion experiment on fixed target, NA60+, has been proposed at the CERN SPS for data taking in the next years. Its main goals will be focused on precision studies of thermal dimuons, heavy quark and strangeness production in Pb-Pb…
The program of NA61/SHINE allows for the investigation of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. The nature of the quark-hadron transition can be studied through analyzing the space-time structure of the hadron emission source…
AMBER (NA66) is a fixed-target facility at the M2 beam line of CERN SPS, which performs worldwide unique research on the internal structure and the excitation spectrum of hadrons. The approved first phase of the experiment focuses on three…
Experimental and theoretical studies of fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus interactions at high energies have started to play a major role in understanding of the concept of strong interactions. The elaborated procedures have been developed to…
The existence and location of the QCD critical point is an object of both experimental and theoretical studies. The comprehensive data collected by NA61/SHINE during a two-dimensional scan in beam momentum (13A-150A GeV/c) and system size…
The NA49 fixed-target experiment studied high energy-density matter produced in nucleus-nucleus reactions at the CERN SPS. In central Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV the energy density at the early stage substantially exceeds the threshold for…
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Jozsef Zimanyi one of the founders of the experiment NA49 at the CERN SPS. Firstly, the paper summarizes the main results of NA49 concerning observation of the onset of deconfinement in central Pb+Pb…
A new experimental program to study hadron production in collisions of nuclei at the CERN SPS is presented. The program will focus on measurements of fluctuations and long correlations with the aim to identify properties of the onset of…
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…
The region of high baryonic densities of the QCD phase diagram is the object of several studies focused on the investigation of the order of the phase transition and the search for the critical point. The rare probes, which include…
The NA61/SHINE collaboration has recently published high precision data on production of $\pi^\pm$ and $K^\pm$ mesons, protons, antiprotons and $\Lambda$ hyperons in ${\rm pp}$ interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c, and in ${\rm pC}$…
The NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) scans particle production in collisions of nuclei with various sizes at a set of energies covering the SPS energy range towards various physics goals. This paper…
The isospin symmetry, originating from similar masses of $u$ and $d$ quarks, if exact would result in equal numbers of charged ($K^+$ and $K^{-}$) and neutral ($K^0$ and $\overline{K}^0$) mesons produced in collisions of isospin-symmetric…
Study of energy and system size fluctuations of identified hadrons is one of the key goals of NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS. Results may allow to discover the critical point (CP) of strongly interacting matter as well as to uncover properties…
This paper presents preliminary results from the NA61/SHINE experiment on $\phi$ meson production in central Ar+Sc collisions at beam momenta of 150$A$, 75$A$, and 40$A$ GeV/$c$ (corresponding to $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 16.8, 11.9, and 8.8 GeV,…
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…