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Probing ALPs at the CERN Gamma Factory

The aim of the proposed CERN Gamma Factory is to produce $\sim 10^{17}$ photons per second with energies up to 400 MeV. The photon beam intensity is expected to be a factor of $\mathcal{O}(10^7)$ larger than that of the presently available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-28 Reuven Balkin , Mieczyslaw W. Krasny , Teng Ma , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq

Heavy-ion physics at the CERN SPS H2: NA35, NA49 and NA61/SHINE (with personal recollections)

This review presents a unified account of the NA35, NA49, and NA61/SHINE experiments, which together form a continuous programme of heavy-ion studies conducted at the H2 beamline of the CERN North Area using the SPS accelerator. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-10 Marek Gazdzicki

News from strong interactions program of the NA61/SHINE experiment

The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. This is performed by a two dimensional phase diagram ($T-\mu_B$) scan of measurements of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

Measurement of single charged pion production in charged-current $\nu_\mu$-Ar interactions with the MicroBooNE detector

We present flux-averaged charged-current $\nu_\mu$ cross-section measurements on argon for final states containing exactly one $\pi^\pm$ and no other hadrons except nucleons. The analysis uses data from the MicroBooNE experiment in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-12 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , B. Behera , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , V. Bhelande , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , A. Devitt , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , K. Kumar , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , N. Majeed , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter at CERN SPS energies

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…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Maciej Rybczynski

Future facilities: the CERN SPS

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN has played a pioneering role in the study of heavy-ion collisions since 1986 and nowadays remains central to the exploration of the Quark Gluon Plasma. This document summarizes the present status…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-16 Roberta Arnaldi

Search for a light muon-philic $Z^\prime$ with the NA64-$e$ experiment at CERN

The extension of Standard Model made by inclusion of additional $U(1)$ gauge $L_\mu-L_\tau$ symmetry can explain the difference between the measured and the predicted value of the muon magnetic moment and solve the tension in $B$ meson…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-09 Yu. M. Andreev , D. Banerjee , B. Banto Oberhauser , J. Bernhard , P. Bisio , M. Bondì , V. E. Burtsev , A. Celentano , N. Charitonidis , A. G. Chumakov , D. Cooke , P. Crivelli , E. Depero , A. V. Dermenev , S. V. Donskov , R. R. Dusaev , T. Enik , V. N. Frolov , A. Gardikiotis , S. G. Gerassimov , S. N. Gninenko , M. Hösgen , M. Jeckel , V. A. Kachanov , A. E. Karneyeu , G. Kekelidze , B. Ketzer , D. V. Kirpichnikov , M. M. Kirsanov , V. N. Kolosov , I. V. Konorov , S. G. Kovalenko , V. A. Kramarenko , L. V. Kravchuk , N. V. Krasnikov , S. V. Kuleshov , V. E. Lyubovitskij , V. Lysan , L. Marsicano , V. A. Matveev , Yu. V. Mikhailov , L. Molina Bueno , D. V. Peshekhonov , V. A. Polyakov , B. Radics , R. Rojas , A. Rubbia , K. M. Salamatin , V. D. Samoylenko , H. Sieber , D. Shchukin , V. O. Tikhomirov , I. Tlisova , A. N. Toropin , A. Yu Trifonov , P. Ulloa , B. I. Vasilishin , G. Vasquez Arenas , P. V. Volkov , V. Yu. Volkov , I. Voronchikhin

Measurements of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ spectra in $^{40}$Ar+$^{45}$Sc collisions at 13$A$ to 150$A$ GeV/$c$

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron studies the onset of deconfinement in strongly interacting matter through a beam energy scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei of varied sizes. This paper presents…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-04-25 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. Csanád , 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 , 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 , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. Merzlaya , Ł. Mik , A. Morawiec , S. Morozov , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , M. Naskret , S. Nishimori , V. Ozvenchuk , 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 , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , V. Volkov , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina , R. Zwaska

Astrophysics in the Laboratory: The CBM Experiment at FAIR

The future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is an accelerator-based international center for fundamental and applied research, which presently is under construction in Darmstadt, Germany. An important part of the program is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-04-24 P. Senger , for the CBM collaboration

Status report of the NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS

The aim of the NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS is to measure direct CP violation in neutral kaon decays thus determining the parameter $\epsilon'/\epsilon$ with an accuracy of $2\times 10^{-4}$. The advantages of NA48 with respect to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-02-24 Cinzia Talamonti

The HERMES Spectrometer

The HERMES experiment is collecting data on inclusive and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of polarised positrons from polarised targets of H, D, and He. These data give information on the spin structure of the nucleon. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Ackerstaff

The CERN n TOF NEAR station for astrophysics- and application-related neutron activation measurements

A new experimental area, the NEAR station, has recently been built at the CERN n TOF facility, at a short distance from the spallation target (1.5 m). The new area, characterized by a neutron beam of very high flux, has been designed with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-13 N. Patronis , A. Mengoni , N. Colonna , M. Cecchetto , C. Domingo-Pardo , O. Aberle , J. Lerendegui-Marco , G. Gervino , M. E. Stamati , S. Goula , A. P. Bernardes , M. Mastromarco , A. Manna , R. Vlastou , C. Massimi , M. Calviani , V. Alcayne , S. Altieri , S. Amaducci , J. Andrzejewski , V. Babiano-Suarez , M. Bacak , J. Balibrea , C. Beltrami , S. Bennett , E. Berthoumieux , M. Boromiza , D. Bosnar , M. Caamano , F. Calvino , D. Cano-Ott , A. Casanovas , F. Cerutti , G. Cescutti , S. Chasapoglou , E. Chiaveri , P. Colombetti , P. Console Camprini , G. Cortes , M. A. Cortes-Giraldo , L. Cosentino , S. Cristallo , S. Dellmann , M. Di Castro , S. Di Maria , M. Diakaki , M. Dietz , R. Dressler , E. Dupont , I. Duran , Z. Eleme , S. Fargier , B. Fernandez , B. Fernandez-Dominguez , P. Finocchiaro , S. Fiore , V. Furman , F. Garcia-Infantes , A. Gawlik-Ramiega , S. Gilardoni , E. Gonzalez-Romero , C. Guerrero , F. Gunsing , C. Gustavino , J. Heyse , W. Hillman , D. G. Jenkins , E. Jericha , A. Junghans , Y. Kadi , K. Kaperoni , G. Kaur , A. Kimura , I. Knapova , M. Kokkoris , Y. Kopatch , M. Krticka , N. Kyritsis , I. Ladarescu , C. Lederer-Woods , G. Lerner , T. Martınez , A. Masi , P. Mastinu , E. A. Maugeri , A. Mazzone , E. Mendoza , P. M. Milazzo , R. Mucciola , F. Murtas , E. Musacchio-Gonzalez , A. Musumarra , A. Negret , A. Perez de Rada , P. Perez-Maroto , J. A. Pavon-Rodrıguez , M. G. Pellegriti , J. Perkowski , C. Petrone , E. Pirovano , J. Plaza , S. Pomp , I. Porras , J. Praena , J. M. Quesada , R. Reifarth , D. Rochman , Y. Romanets , C. Rubbia , A. Sanchez , M. Sabate-Gilarte , P. Schillebeeckx , D. Schumann , A. Sekhar , A. G. Smith , N. V. Sosnin , A. Sturniolo , G. Tagliente , D. Tarrio , P. Torres-Sanchez , S. Urlass , E. Vagena , S. Valenta , V. Variale , P. Vaz , G. Vecchio , D. Vescovi , V. Vlachoudis , T. Wallner , P. J. Woods , T. Wright , R. Zarrella , P. Zugec

Experimental setup and procedure for the measurement of the 7Be(n,{\alpha}){\alpha} reaction at n_TOF

The newly built second experimental area EAR2 of the n_TOF spallation neutron source at CERN allows to perform (n, charged particles) experiments on short-lived highly radioactive targets. This paper describes a detection apparatus and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-01 L. Cosentino , A. Musumarra , M. Barbagallo , A. Pappalardo , N. Colonna , L. Damone , M. Piscopo , P. Finocchiaro , E. Maugeri , S. Heinitz , D. Schumann , R. Dressler , N. Kivel , O. Aberle , J. Andrzejewski , L. Audouin , M. Ayranov , M. Bacak , S. Barros , J. Balibrea-Correa , V. Beecares , F. Becvar , C. Beinrucker , E. Berthoumieux , J. Billowes , D. Bosnar , M. Brugger , M. Caamano , M. Calviani , F. Calvino , D. Cano-Ott , R. Cardella , A. Casanovas , D. M. Castelluccio , F. Cerutti , Y. H. Chen , E. Chiaveri , G. Cortes , M. A. Cortes-Giraldo , M. Diakaki , C. Domingo-Pardo , E. Dupont , I. Duran , B. Fernandez-Dominguez , A. Ferrari , P. Ferreira , W. Furman , S. Ganesan , A. Garcia-Rios , A. Gawlik , I. Gheorghe , T. Glodariu , K. Goebel , I. F. Goncalves , E. Gonzalez-Romero , E. Griesmayer , C. Guerrero , F. Gunsing , H. Harada , T. Heftrich , J. Heyse , D. G. Jenkins , E. Jericha , F. Kaeppeler , T. Katabuchi , P. Kavrigin , A. Kimura , M. Kokkoris , M. Krticka , E. Leal-Chidonca , J. Lerendegui , C. Lederer , H. Leeb , S. Lo Meo , S. Lonsdale , R. Losito , D. Macina , J. Marganiec , T. Martinez , C. Massimi , P. Mastinu , M. Mastromarco , F. Matteucci , A. Mazzone , E. Mendoza , A. Mengoni , P. M. Milazzo , F. Mingrone , M. Mirea , S. Montesano , R. Nolte , A. Oprea , N. Patronis , A. Pavlik , J. Perkowski , J. Praena , J. Quesada , K. Rajeev , T. Rauscher , R. Reifarth , A. Riego-Perez , P. Rout , C. Rubbia , J. Ryan , M. Sabate-Gilarte , A. Saxena , P. Schillebeeckx , S. Schmidt , P. Sedyshev , A. Stamatopoulos , G. Tagliente , J. L. Tain , A. Tarifeno-Saldivia , L. Tassan-Got , A. Tsinganis , S. Valenta , G. Vannini , V. Variale , P. Vaz , A. Ventura , V. Vlachoudis , R. Vlastou , J. Vollaire , A. Wallner , S. Warren , M. Weigand , C. Weiß , C. Wolf , P. J. Woods , T. Wright , P. Zugec , n_TOF collaboration

A comparative measurement of $\phi\rightarrow K^+K^-$ and $\phi\rightarrow \mu^+\mu^-$ in In-In collisions at the CERN SPS

The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied $\phi$ meson production in In-In collisions at 158A GeV via both the $K^+K^-$ and the $\mu^+\mu^-$ decay channels. The yields and inverse slope parameters of the $m_T$ spectra observed in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-23 NA60 Collaboration , R. Arnaldi , K. Banicz , J. Castor , B. Chaurand , W. Chen , C. Cicalò , A. Colla , P. Cortese , S. Damjanovic , A. David , A. de Falco , A. Devaux , L. Ducroux , H. En'yo , J. Fargeix , A. Ferretti , M. Floris , A. Förster , P. Force , N. Guettet , A. Guichard , H. Gulkanian , J. M. Heuser , M. Keil , Z. Li , C. Lourenço , J. Lozano , F. Manso , P. Martins , A. Masoni , A. Neves , H. Ohnishi , C. Oppedisano , P. Parracho , P. Pillot , T. Poghosyan , G. Puddu , E. Radermacher , P. Ramalhete , P. Rosinsky , E. Scomparin , J. Seixas , S. Serci , R. Shahoyan , P. Sonderegger , H. J. Specht , R. Tieulent , A. Uras , G. Usai , R. Veenhof , H. K. Wöhri

The Kaon identification system at the NA62 experiment at CERN

The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS aims to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare kaon decay $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ with 10\% precision, collecting $\sim 100$ events, assuming the Standard Model~(SM) branching ratio of $8.4 \times…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 Karim Massri

Hadron production experiments

The HARP and NA61/SHINE hadroproduction experiments as well as their implications for neutrino physics are discussed. HARP measurements have already been used for predictions of neutrino beams in K2K and Mini-BooNE/SciBooNE experiments and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Boris A. Popov