Recent results from the NA61/SHINE strong interaction physics programme

Abstract

The main physics goals of the NA61/SHINE programme on strong interactions are the study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement and the search for signatures of the critical point of strongly interacting matter. For this purpose a scan of the two dimensional phase diagram ($T$-${\mu }_B$) is being performed at the SPS by measurements of hadron production in nucleus-nucleus collisions as a function of collision energy and system size. This contribution presents intriguing results on the energy dependence of hadron spectra and yields in inelastic p+p and centrality selected Be+Be and Ar+Sc collisions. In particular, the energy dependence of the signals of deconfinement, the "horn", "step" and "kink", and new results on fluctuations and correlations are shown and compared with the corresponding data of other experiments and model predictions.

8 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the proceedings of XIIth International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Thessaloniki, August 28th to September 3d 2016

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