CERN Accelerating science

NA61/SHINE

Hunting for charm with lead and SHINE

  SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) [1] is a multi-purpose experiment studying hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions. The programme on strong interactions includes studying the properties of…

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Nuclear Physics Meets Neutrinos

Neutrino beams, such as those currently operating at Fermilab in the USA and J-PARC in Japan, are typically produced by colliding high-energy proton beams with long, thin solid targets.  These collisions result in a spray of particles including…

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