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most citedPion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A and 30A GeV: Evidence for the onset of deconfinement

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quant-ph2026

Detectability of Post-Quantum Correlations in Symmetry-Restricted Bell Scenarios

Marek Gazdzicki, Francesco Giacosa

Searches for post-quantum correlations depend on two distinct ingredients: how abundant such correlations are in the underlying correlation space and how efficiently the chosen rep…

nucl-th2026

Hadronic and partonic composition of QCD matter across the crossover

Artemiy Lysenko, Mark I. Gorenstein, Marek Gazdzicki +2

We construct a simple equation of state of strongly interacting matter at zero chemical potentials that provides a unified description of lattice QCD thermodynamics in terms of had…

nucl-ex2026

production and the time between freeze-outs in Ar+Sc collisions by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

SHINE Collaboration, P. Adrich, K. K. Allison +109

The analysis of the production of strange resonances allows us to better understand the temporal evolution of high-energy nucleus--nucleus collisions. In particular,…

quant-ph2026

Symmetric Locality as a Tetrahedron: A Symmetry-Reduced Geometric Representation of the (3,3,2,2) Bell Scenario

Marek Gazdzicki, Francesco Giacosa, Pawel Piesowicz

We present a geometric characterisation of local models in the bipartite Bell scenario with three measurement settings per site and binary outcomes, i.e. the (3,3,2,2) case. Restri…

nucl-ex2026

Isospin-symmetry violation - kaons and beyond (ISO-BREAK 25: summary and outlook)

Marek Gazdzicki, Francesco Giacosa, Katarzyna Grebieszkow +40

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions during the ISO-BREAK 25 Workshop ``Isospin symmetry violation: kaons and beyond'', which was held at Jan Kochanowski Univer…

nucl-th2026

Baryon fluctuation signatures of the onset of deconfinement

Marek Gazdzicki, Mark Gorenstein, Anar Rustamov

An anomalous collision-energy dependence of proton number fluctuations is predicted as a consequence of the onset of deconfinement in heavy-ion collisions at the center of mass ene…

nucl-ex2026

Experiments at the CERN SPS: first signals of deconfinement

Federico Antinori, Marek Gazdzicki, Tapan K. Nayak +6

Heavy-ion experiments at the CERN SPS began in the mid-1980s to study nuclear matter at extreme temperatures and densities. The program started with light ions, such as oxygen and…

nucl-ex2026

Heavy-ion physics at the CERN SPS H2: NA35, NA49 and NA61/SHINE (with personal recollections)

Marek Gazdzicki

This review presents a unified account of the NA35, NA49, and NA61/SHINE experiments, which together form a continuous programme of heavy-ion studies conducted at the H2 beamline o…

nucl-ex2025

Proposal from the NA61/SHINE Collaboration for update of European Strategy for Particle Physics

SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich +128

Building on the current program's success and driven by new physics challenges, the NA61/SHINE Collaboration proposes to continue measuring hadron production properties in reaction…

nucl-ex2025

Multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in central Ar+Sc interactions at 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, and 150A GeV/c beam momenta measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. K. Allison +128

This paper presents results on multiplicity fluctuations of positively and negatively charged hadrons as well as net-electric charge fluctuations measured in central Ar+Sc interact…

nucl-th2025

Apparent teleportation of indistinguishable particles

Marek Gazdzicki, Daniel Kikola, Ivan Pidhurskyi +1

Teleportation, introduced in science fiction literature, is an instantaneous change of the position of a macroscopic object. Two teleportation-like phenomena have been predicted by…

hep-ex2024★ 2 cited

Measurements of hadron production in 90 GeV/c proton-carbon interactions

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. K. Allison +136

This paper presents the multiplicity of neutral and charged hadrons produced in 90 GeV proton-carbon interactions from a dataset taken by the NA61/SHINE experiment in 2017. Par…

hep-ex2024

meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 31, 40 and 80 GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

N. Abgrall, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich +155

Measurements of meson production via its decay mode in inelastic interactions at incident projectile momenta of 31, 40 and 80 GeV/ ($\sqrt{s…

nucl-ex2024★ 1 cited

Search for a critical point of strongly-interacting matter in central Ar +Sc collisions at 13-75 GeV/ beam momentum

SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich +154

The critical point of strongly interacting matter is searched for at the CERN SPS by the NA61/SHINE experiment in central Ar +Sc collisions at 13, 19, 30, 40…

hep-ex2023

Measurements of higher-order cumulants of multiplicity and net-electric charge distributions in inelastic proton-proton interactions by NA61/SHINE

NA61/SHINE, :, H. Adhikary +148

This paper presents the energy dependence of multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in p+p interactions at beam momenta 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158 GeV/c. Results are correc…

nucl-th2023

Evidence of isospin-symmetry violation in high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei: Theoretical and Phenomenological considerations

Wojciech Brylinski, Marek Gazdzicki, Francesco Giacosa +3

Recently, the NA61/SHINE collaboration at the CERN SPS reported evidence of isospin-symmetry violation in high-energy nuclear collisions [Nature Commun. 16, 2849 (2025)]. The effec…

nucl-ex2023★ 2 cited

Evidence of isospin-symmetry violation in high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei

SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich +154

Strong interactions preserve an approximate isospin symmetry between up () and down () quarks, part of the more general flavor symmetry. In the case of meson production,…

nucl-ex2023★ 12 cited

Measurements of , , and spectra in Ar+Sc collisions at 13 to 150 GeV/

SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich +152

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron studies the onset of deconfinement in strongly interacting matter through a beam energy scan of particle production i…

hep-ex2023

Measurements of , , , , and production in 120 GeV/ p + C interactions

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. K. Allison +152

This paper presents multiplicity measurements of charged hadrons produced in 120 GeV/ proton-carbon interactions. The measurements were made using data collected at the NA61/SHI…

nucl-ex2023

Search for the critical point of strongly-interacting matter in Ar + Sc collisions at 150A GeV/c using scaled factorial moments of protons

SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich +157

The critical point of dense, strongly interacting matter is searched for at the CERN SPS in Ar + Sc collisions at 150A GeV/c. The dependence of second-order scale…

hep-ph2023

Spatial correlations of charm and anticharm quarks at hadronisation

M. Gazdzicki, D. Kikola, I. Pidhurskyi +1

Heavy-ion collisions are a unique tool for studying properties of strong interactions at high energy densities. In particular, the momentum correlations of charm and bottom hadrons…

physics.ins-det2023★ 4 cited

A high-resolution pixel silicon Vertex Detector for open charm measurements with the \NASixtyOne spectrometer at the CERN SPS

A. Aduszkiewicz, M. Bajda, M. Baszczyk +24

The study of open charm meson production provides an efficient tool for the investigation of the properties of hot and dense matter formed in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The interp…

nucl-ex2023★ 20 cited

Two-pion femtoscopic correlations in Be+Be collisions at GeV measured by the NA61/SHINE at CERN

SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich +154

This paper reports measurements of two-pion Bose-Einstein (HBT) correlations in Be+Be collisions at a beam momentum of 150$A\,\mbox{GeV}/\textit{c}$ by the $\mbox{NA61/SHINE}$ expe…

hep-ex2022

Measurements of , and production in 120 GeV/ p + C interactions

SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, K. K. Allison +155

This paper presents multiplicity measurements of , , and produced in 120 GeV/ proton-carbon interactions. The measurements were made using data coll…