NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
An Interdisciplinary Journal

2009, Vol.12, No.4, pp.380-384


Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement: Ion Program of NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS.
Antoni Aduszkiewicz

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. These goals will be reached by measurements of hadron production properties in nucleus-nucleus, proton-proton and proton-lead interactions as a function of collision energy and size of the colliding nuclei. This contribution summarizes physics arguments for the NA61/SHINE ion program as well as presents the status and plans of the experiment for the next years.
Key words: NA61/SHINE, Onset of Deconfinement, Critical Point

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