Calibration and analysis of the 2007 data

Ereditato, Antonio; Hess, Max; Lehmann, Simon; Messina, Marcello; Rossi, Biagio (2008). Calibration and analysis of the 2007 data (Status Report). CERN-SPSC-2008-018

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he physics program of the NA61/SHINE (SHINE = SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) experiment at the CERN SPS consists of three subjects. In the first stage of data taking (2007-2009) measurements of hadron production in hadron-nucleus interactions needed for neutrino (T2K) and cosmic-ray (Pierre Auger and KASCADE) experiments will be performed. In the second stage (2009-2010) hadron production in proton-proton and proton-nucleus interactions needed as reference data for a better understanding of nucleus-nucleus reactions will be studied. In the third stage (2009-2013) energy dependence of hadron production properties will be measured in p+p, p+Pb interactions and nucleus-nucleus collisions, with the aim to identify the properties of the onset of deconfinement and find evidence for the critical point of strongly interacting matter. The NA61 experiment was approved at CERN in June 2007. The first pilot run was performed during October 2007. Calibrations of all detector components have been performed successfully and preliminary uncorrected spectra have been obtained. High quality of track reconstruction and particle identification similar to NA49 has been achieved. The data and new detailed simulations confirm that the NA61 detector acceptance and particle identification capabilities cover the phase space required by the T2K experiment. This document reports on the progress made in the calibration and analysis of the 2007 data.

Item Type:	Report (Report)
Division/Institute:	08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)
UniBE Contributor:	Ereditato, Antonio, Messina, Marcello, Rossi, Biagio
Series:	Status Report
Publisher:	CERN-SPSC-2008-018
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 15:23
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:26
Additional Information:	Kollaboration. Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt.
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/37541 (FactScience: 208842)