NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS: plans, status and first results
Antoni Aduszkiewicz (for the NA61 Collaboration)
TL;DR
NA61/SHINE at CERN SPS investigates the phase transition of strongly interacting matter, aiming to locate the critical point and provide precise hadron production data for neutrino and cosmic ray research, with initial results supporting these goals.
Contribution
This paper presents the first physics results of the NA61/SHINE experiment, highlighting its role in exploring the critical point and deconfinement in strongly interacting matter.
Findings
Initial measurements of hadron production in various collision systems
Evidence supporting the experiment's capability to study the critical point
Data relevant for neutrino and cosmic ray experiments
Abstract
The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. It also to performs precise hadron production measurements for the neutrino and cosmic rays experiments. These goals will be achieved by measurements of hadron production properties in nucleus-nucleus, proton-proton and proton-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and size of the colliding nuclei, as well as pion-nucleus interactions. This contribution summarises the arguments of the ion program as well as presents the first physics results of the NA61 experiment.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.