Upgrade of the NA61/SHINE Facility beyond 2020 for an Expanded Physics Programme

Autor: Dag Larsen, on behalf of the NA61/SHINE collaboration
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Universe, Vol 5, Iss 1, p 24 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2218-1997
DOI: 10.3390/universe5010024
Popis: The NA61/SHINE experiment studies hadron production in hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions. The physics programme includes the study of the onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point as well as reference measurements for neutrino and cosmic ray experiments. For strong interactions, future plans are to extend the programme of study of the onset of deconfinement by measurements of open-charm and possibly other short-lived, exotic particle production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. This new programme is planned to start after 2020 and requires upgrades to the present NA61/SHINE detector setup. Besides the construction of a large acceptance silicon detector, a 10-fold increase of the event recording rate is foreseen, which will necessitate a general upgrade of most detectors.
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