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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 316, 2025
The 21st International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2024)
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Article Number | 01008 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Introduction and Highlights | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202531601008 | |
Published online | 27 January 2025 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202531601008
Recent results from NA61/SHINE
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
* e-mail: andrzej.rybicki@ifj.edu.pl
Published online: 27 January 2025
The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is a multipurpose fixed-target spectrometer for charged and neutral hadron measurements. Its research program includes studies of strong interactions as well as reference measurements for neutrino and cosmic-ray physics. A significant advantage of NA61/SHINE over collider experiments is its extended coverage of phase space available for hadron production. This includes the nearly entire forward hemisphere for charged hadrons and additionally, a large part of the backward hemisphere for specific neutrals. This paper summarizes a selected set of new results, obtained by NA61/SHINE since the last SQM conference (Busan, 2022). Particular attention is devoted to (1) the first-ever direct measurement of open charm production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at SPS energies (2) the difference observed between charged and neutral meson production in Ar+Sc reactions, up to now not understood by existing models, and (3) the importance of baseline effects in the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter.
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