On strangeness in NA61/SHINE
Abstract
NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment at the CERN Super-Proton- Synchrotron. The main goals of the experiment are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In order to reach these goals, a study of hadron production properties is performed in nucleus-nucleus, proton-proton and proton-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and size of the colliding nuclei. In this paper, I will review recent results on strangeness production in p+p, Be+Be and Ar+Sc collisions in the SPS energy range. Kinematic spectra and mean multiplicities of kaons obtained with various analysis methods will be shown. An overview of strangeness production and its dependence on system size in the vicinity of the phase transition will be presented as well.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1807.03185
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1807.03185
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180703185L
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Experiment;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- Presented at Excited QCD, Kopaonik, Serbia, 11-15 March 2018