NA61/SHINE Experiment—Program beyond 2020
Abstract
:1. Introduction
Results of Initial NA61/SHINE Research
2. New Measurements Requested
- Measurements of charm hadron production in Pb + Pb collisions for heavy ion physics;
- measurements of nuclear fragmentation cross-section for cosmic ray physics;
- measurements of hadron production in hadron–nucleus interactions for neutrino physics.
- RHIC BES fixed-target ( GeV ): Measurement not considered in the current program [27];
- NICA ( GeV): Measurements during stage 2 (after 2023) are under consideration [28];
- J-PARC-HI ( GeV): Under consideration, may be possible after 2025 [29];
- FAIR SIS-100 ( ): Not possible due to the very low cross-section at SIS-100, charm measurements are planned with SIS-300 ( GeV), but not with the start version (timeline is unclear).
- Energies at which the transition from confined hadrons to quark gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions takes place—the onset of deconfinement [30];
- proton beams of momenta used to produce neutrino beams at J-PARC, Japan and Fermilab, US [31];
- light nuclei at momenta > 10 A GeV/c, important for the understanding of the propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy [32].
Specific Research Goals
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
CERN | Conseil Europén pour la Recherche Nucléaire |
CP | critical point |
FAIR | Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research |
HG | hadron gas |
HIC | heavy-ion collision |
J-PARC | Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex |
LHC | Large Hadron Collider |
LS | long shutdown |
NICA | Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility |
QCD | quantum chromodynamics |
QGP | quark-gluon plasma |
SAVD | small acceptance vertex detector |
RHIC | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
SPS | Super Proton Synchrotron |
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