NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system

Ereditato, Antonio; Hierholzer, Martin; Messina, Marcello; Nirkko, Martti; Pistillo, Ciro; Redij, Asmita Ajit; Rossi, Biagio (2014). NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system. Journal of instrumentation, 9, P06005. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1748-0221/9/06/P06005

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NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a multi-purpose experimental facility to study hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. It recorded the first physics data with hadron beams in 2009 and with ion beams (secondary 7Be beams) in 2011.
NA61/SHINE has greatly profited from the long development of the CERN proton and ion sources and the accelerator chain as well as the H2 beamline of the CERN North Area. The latter has recently been modified to also serve as a fragment separator as needed to produce the Be beams for NA61/SHINE. Numerous components of the NA61/SHINE set-up were inherited from its predecessors, in particular, the last one, the NA49 experiment. Important new detectors and upgrades of the legacy equipment were introduced by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration.
This paper describes the state of the NA61/SHINE facility — the beams and the detector system — before the CERN Long Shutdown I, which started in March 2013.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Ereditato, Antonio, Hierholzer, Martin, Messina, Marcello, Nirkko, Martti, Pistillo, Ciro, Redij, Asmita Ajit, Rossi, Biagio

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1748-0221

Publisher:

Institute of Physics Publishing IOP

Language:

English

Submitter:

Jan Dirk Brinksma

Date Deposited:

04 Jun 2015 15:29

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:47

Publisher DOI:

10.1088/1748-0221/9/06/P06005

Additional Information:

Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.68758

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/68758

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