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The heavy-ion programme of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS has been expanded to allow precise measurements of exotic particles with short lifetime. The study of open charm meson production is a sensitive tool for new detailed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-10 Anastasia Merzlaya

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

With the Large Hadron Collider entering its third year of granting us insight into the highest collision energies to date, one should nevertheless keep in mind the unexplored physics potential of lower energies. A prime example here is the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Marek Szuba

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 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 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

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is pursuing a rich programme on strong interactions, covering the study of onset of deconfinement and aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter by performing an energy and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Dag Larsen

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

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In order to reach these goals measurements of hadron production properties…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Szymon Puławski

The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. For these goals a scan of the two dimensional phase diagram ($T-\mu_{B}$) is being…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-01 Evgeny Andronov

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

The strong interactions programme of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS has been extended through the use of new silicon Vertex Detector, which allows for reconstructing open charm particles. The detector was designed to identify…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-01-26 Dag Larsen , Anastasia Merzlaya

The critical point of strongly interacting matter is searched for at the CERN SPS by the NA61/SHINE experiment in central $^{40}$Ar +$^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$, 19$A$, 30$A$, 40$A$, and 75$A$ GeV/$c$. The dependence of the second-order…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-01-09 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 , M. Ćirković , M. Csanad , J. Cybowska , T. Czopowicz , C. Dalmazzone , N. Davis , A. Dmitriev , P. von Doetinchem , W. Dominik , P. Dorosz , J. Dumarchez , R. Engel , G. A. Feofilov , L. Fields , Z. Fodor , M. Friend , A. Garibov , M. Gaździcki , O. Golosov , V. Golovatyuk , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , F. Guber , S. N. Igolkin , S. Ilieva , A. Ivashkin , A. Izvestnyy , K. Kadija , 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 , K. Marton , 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 , O. Panova , 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 , 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 , Ł. Świderski , 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 , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , V. Volkov , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina , R. Zwaska

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 strong interactions programme of the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS has been extended through the use of new silicon Vertex Detector which provides precise measurements of exotic particles with short lifetime. The detector was…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-11-01 Dag Larsen , Anastasia Merzlaya

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-22 Haradhan Adhikary

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

Building on the current program's success and driven by new physics challenges, the NA61/SHINE Collaboration proposes to continue measuring hadron production properties in reactions induced by hadron and ion beams after CERN Long Shutdown…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-14 SHINE Collaboration , 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. Brylinski , J. Brzychczyk , M. Buryakov , A. F. Camino , Y. D. Chandak , M. Csanad , 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. Gazdzicki , 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 , P. Lasko , A. Laszlo , M. Lewicki , G. Lykasov , J. R. Lyon , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Mackowiak-Pawłowska , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. Merzlaya , L. Mik , S. Morozov , Y. Nagai , R. Nagy , 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 , L. 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 , L. Swiderski , J. Szewinski , R. Szukiewicz , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , T. S. Tveter , M. Unger , M. Urbaniak , D. Veberic , O. Vitiuk , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Witek , K. Wojcik , O. Wyszynski , A. Zaitsev , E. Zherebtsova , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina

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

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…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Anastasia Merzlaya