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| Status and future perspective of the NA61/SHINE experiment |
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The NA61/SHINE detector is a large acceptance spectrometer with particle
identification capabilities, where a beam of nuclei or hadrons collides
with a fixed target at the CERN SPS facility. The NA61/SHINE project is
the successor of the NA49 experiment, re-uses most of its equipment and
software, and features important upgrades of both hardware and software.
The broad physics program will provide new data of hadron production in
interactions of light and medium size ions as well of protons and pions.
The major goal of the heavy ion program is the exploration of the phase
diagram of strongly interacting matter with a 2-dimensional scan in
energy and size of the collision system. In particular NA61 will carry
out a detailed study of the onset of deconfinement and search for
signatures of the critical point. Precision measurements of
proton-carbon and pion-carbon reactions are performed to improve the
prediction of the neutrino flux for the T2K neutrino oscillation
experiment and the reliability of air shower simulations for the Pierre
Auger Observatory and KASCADE cosmic-ray projects. High-statistics p+p
and p+Pb collision data will be collected to investigate nuclear
modification effects at SPS energies.
The equipment and data acquisition system of the NA61/SHINE detector
were upgraded for a tenfold increase of the speed of data taking as
compared to NA49. A new projectile spectator detector is under
construction which will allow a precise determination of the number of
participants in ion collisions.
A pilot run of p+C interactions has been successfully completed in 2007
from which preliminary results are already used in the T2K neutrino
experiment. Data taking with high statistics for T2K and cosmic ray
experiments were completed this year. The energy/system size scan
started with p+p reactions in 2009. Ion measurements are expected to
start with B+C collisions in 2011. Ar+Ca and Xe+La collisions are
planned for 2013/2014.
The status of the detector upgrades, as well as preliminary results from
both p+C and p+p collisions will be presented. |
| Collaboration: |
NA61/SHINE collaboration |
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155 |
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Room: Main Auditorium |
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| Primary Authors: |
Dr. SLODKOWSKI, Marcin (Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology) |
| Presenters: |
Dr. SLODKOWSKI, Marcin |
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