TL;DR
The paper reviews the CERN SPS's historical and ongoing contributions to heavy-ion collision research, emphasizing current results and future plans for probing the Quark Gluon Plasma with new experiments.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of SPS's past achievements and outlines future experimental directions, including the NA60+ proposal, for studying the Quark Gluon Plasma.
Findings
NA61/SHINE has advanced understanding of heavy-ion collisions.
NA60+ aims to explore electromagnetic probes of QGP.
SPS remains central to high-energy nuclear physics research.
Abstract
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 and future prospects of the SPS physics program with particular focus on hard and electromagnetic probes, highlighting the results and goals of NA61/SHINE and the proposed NA60+ experiment.
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Taxonomy
TopicsParticle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers · Particle Detector Development and Performance · Superconducting Materials and Applications