학술논문

NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system
Document Type
article
Source
Journal of Instrumentation. 9(06)
Subject
Particle identification methods
Time projection chambers
Instrumentation for radioactive beams (fragmentation devices
fragment and isotope
separators incl. ISOL
isobar separators
ion and atom traps
weak-beam diagnostics
radioactive-beam ion sources)
Trigger detectors
physics.ins-det
nucl-ex
81V36
Physical Sciences
Engineering
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Language
Abstract
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. © CERN 2014 for the benefit of the NA61/SHINE collaboration..