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NA49 and NA61/SHINE experiments: results and perspectives
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) covers one of the most interesting regions
of the QCD phase diagram . On the one hand there are indications
that the energy threshold for deconfinement is reached already at low SPS
energies. On the other hand theoretical calculations locate the QCD critical
end-point at energies accessible at the SPS. In this paper the NA49 signatures
of the onset of deconfinement are presented. Results are shown on pion
production, the kaon to pion ratio, slopes of transverse mass spectra
("temperature"), and event-by-event particle ratio fluctuations versus
collision energy, for central interactions. Next we show possible
indications of the critical point in event-by-event mean transverse momentum
and multiplicity fluctuations. Finally we discuss the future ion program of the
NA61/SHINE experiment (energy scan with light ions).Comment: Lecture given at XXXI Mazurian Conference on Physics (August 30 -
September 6, 2009, Piaski, Poland); first paragraph of page 7 (second
sentence, HGM model) - modifie
Influence of Impact Parameter Fluctuations on Transverse Momentum Fluctuations
The preliminary NA49 results on the energy dependence of transverse momentum
fluctuations over the whole SPS energy range exhibit an unexpected effect. The
fluctuation measure - used by the NA49 experiment - manifests a
different behavior for different charge combinations. Whereas the
is consistent with zero and independent of energy for negatively
charged particles, it significantly increases for both all charged and
positively charged particles at lower SPS energies. The string-hadronic model
UrQMD is applied here to explain this effect. The UrQMD simulations show that
the number of protons is strongly correlated with impact parameter and that the
event-by-event impact parameter fluctuations are responsible for the
event-by-event transverse momentum fluctuations of positively charged and all
charged particles where protons are included. The observations presented in
this article are important for all experiments measuring event-by-event
fluctuations, especially for those using all charged particles in the analysis.
The results can be also crucial for detectors with acceptances extending to the
beam/target spectator domains.Comment: Errata: Section 4, the end of the first paragraph - sentence in
brackets modifie
Search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter in NA49
Theoretical calculations locate the QCD critical point at energies accessible
at the CERN SPS. Several observables were suggested to look for it. Here, we
present the system size dependence and the energy dependence of event-by-event
mean transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations, as well as the energy
dependence of anti-baryon to baryon ratios.Comment: Quark Matter 2009 proceedings, 4 pages; Caption of Fig. 1 and one
line in Fig. 6 modified (for better black and white print
News from strong interactions program of the NA61/SHINE experiment
The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly
interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. This
is performed by a two dimensional phase diagram () scan of
measurements of particle spectra and fluctuations in proton-proton,
proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision
energy and system size.
In this contribution new NA61/SHINE results on negative pion production, as
well as transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations in Ar+Sc collisions
are presented. Moreover, the latest results on higher order moments of
net-charge multiplicity distribution in p+p collisions are also discussed. The
Ar+Sc results are compared to NA61 p+p and Be+Be data, as well as to NA49
results.Comment: Presented at the Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement 2016,
Wroclaw, Poland, May 30th - June 4th, 2016 (v2: Fig. 2 - labels corrected,
references updated
Hot strong matter
The recent results on relativistic heavy-ion collisions are discussed. The
most convincing quark-gluon plasma signatures at the LHC and the top RHIC
energies are presented. Moreover, the possible methods of evaluating the energy
threshold for deconfinement (onset of deconfinement) are described, and the
corresponding results from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan and the SPS programs are
shown. Additionally, the first signatures of creating dense and collectively
behaving systems in collisions of small nuclei (or even in elementary
interactions) are discussed. Finally, the current status of experimental search
for the critical point of strongly interacting matter is summarized.Comment: 20 pages, to appear in the proceedings of DIS 2014 workshop, Warsaw,
Poland, 28/4-2/5, 201
Report from NA49
The signatures of the onset of deconfinement, found by the NA49 experiment at
low SPS energies, are confronted with new results from the Beam Energy Scan
(BES) program at BNL RHIC and CERN LHC results. Additionally, new NA49 results
on chemical (particle ratio) fluctuations, azimuthal angle fluctuations,
intermittency of di-pions, etc. are presented.Comment: 8 pages, proceedings from "Strangeness in Quark Matter", September
18-24, Krako