Status and plans of the ion program of NA61 at the CERN SPS

• Authors: Katarzyna Grebieszkow
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS is a new experiment to study hadron production in p+p, p+A, h+A and A+A interactions. The main goal of the NA61 ion program is to explore the phase diagram (T − µB) of strongly interacting matter. In particular, we plan to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement and to search for the signatures of the critical point. A two-dimensional scan of the phase diagram will be performed by varying the energy (13A–158A GeV) and system size (p+p, Be+Be, Ar+Ca, Xe+La) of collisions. This paper summarizes the status and plans of the NA61/SHINE ion program. In particular the detector upgrades, data taking schedule and the first results on spectra and correlations are discussed.

Keywords

EN

NA61/SHINE experiment; SPS experiment; ion program; critical point; onset of deconfinement

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1333-1337

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2012

online

4 - 12 - 2012

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Grebieszkow

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-012-0059-2