CERN Accelerating science

Scientific Committee Paper
Report number	CERN-SPSC-2018-008 ; SPSC-P-330-ADD-10
Title	Study of Hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the CERN SPS: Early Post-LS2 Measurements and Future Plans
Project Manager/Technical Coordinator	Gazdzicki, Marek
Author(s)	Aduszkiewicz, A
Corporate author(s)	CERN. Geneva. SPS and PS Experiments Committee ; SPSC
Collaboration	NA61/SHINE Collaboration
Series	(Addendum (Proposal))
Submitted by	marek.gazdzicki@cern.ch on 21 Mar 2018
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN SPS ; SHINE NA61
Abstract	NA61/SHINE proposes to continue measurements of hadron and nuclear fragment production properties in reactions induced by hadron and ion beams. The new measurements requested will provide unique data on (i) charm hadron production in Pb+Pb collisions for heavy ion physics, (ii) nuclear fragmentation cross sections for cosmic ray physics and (iii) hadron production in hadron-induced reactions for neutrino physics. The measurements require upgrades of the NA61/SHINE detector that shall increase the data taking rate to about 1 kHz. NA61/SHINE is the only experiment which can conduct the measurements in the near future. In this document the beam request for the early post-LS2 measurements in 2022 is presented. Plans for a continuation of measurements are also discussed.

Email contact(s) : marek@cern.ch ; antoni.aduszkiewicz@cern.ch