NA61 experiment
NA61/SHINE (standing for "SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment") is a particle physics experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The experiment studies the hadronic final states produced in interactions of various beam particles (pions, protons and beryllium, argon, and xenon nuclei) with a variety of fixed nuclear targets at the SPS energies.
NA61 Experiment Logo | |
| Formation | Data taking started on 18-04-2008 |
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| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
Leader of Experiment | Marek Gazdzicki |
| Website | https://shine.web.cern.ch/ |
| Key SPS Experiments | |
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| UA1 | Underground Area 1 |
| UA2 | Underground Area 2 |
| NA31 | NA31 Experiment |
| NA32 | Investigation of Charm Production in Hadronic Interactions Using High-Resolution Silicon Detectors |
| COMPASS | Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy |
| SHINE | SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment |
| NA62 | NA62 Experiment |
| SPS preaccelerators | |
| p and Pb | Linear accelerators for protons (Linac 2) and Lead (Linac 3) |
| (not marked) | Proton Synchrotron Booster |
| PS | Proton Synchrotron |
About 135 physicists from 14 countries and 35 institutions work in NA61/SHINE, led by Marek Gazdzicki. NA61/SHINE is the second largest fixed target experiment at CERN.
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