ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), one of the CERN Large Hadron Collider experiments, was originally designed to study the physics of heavy-ion collisions. It was designed to detect, track, and identify particles up to the largest particle multiplicities. In its first decade of activity, ALICE Collaboration studied the hot and dense medium formed in heavy-ion collisions, the quark-gluon...
Geometry and dynamics of the particle-emitting source in heavy-ion collisions can be inferred via the femtoscopy method. Two-particle correlations at small relative momentum exploit Quantum Statistics (QS) and the Final State Interactions (FSI), which allow one to study the space-time characteristics of the source of the order of 10^{−15} m and 10^{−23} s. The RHIC Beam Energy Scan (BES)...
Recently the HADES Collaboration published the data on strangeness production in the medium-abundant Au+Au system at the deeply subthreshold beam energy of 1.23A GeV [1]. The conditions in this system provide a sensitive testing ground for the description of the strangeness dynamics in the nuclear medium. Therefore, several transport approaches were compared to the data, including IQMD, (P)HSD...
The NA61/SHINE experiment is a fixed-target, broad acceptance facility at the CERN SPS. This contribution summarizes the most recent results from the strong interactions (SI) NA61/SHINE programme and presents news on the detector upgrade in preparation for the future data taking.
The strong interactions programme consists in a two-dimensional scan in
beam momentum (from 13$A$ to...
NA61/SHINE is an experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The main goals of the experiment are the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In order to reach these goals, the two-dimensional scan in beam momentum (13A-150A GeV/c) and system size (p+p, Be+Be, Ar+Sc, Xe+La, Pb+Pb) was performed.
In the final...
Femtoscopy has been a crucial element of the physics programme at the
LHC in Run1 and Run2. Identical meson measurements have shown that we
understand in detail various aspects of the collision dynamics in
heavy ion collisions. In contrast, detailed results in pp collision
still await proper explanation. Similarly non-identical particle
femtoscopy results turned out to be sensitive to the...
Femtoscopic correlation measurements can serve important information on the spatio-temporal structure of the particle emitting source that is created in high energy nuclear collisions. Detailed investigation of the shape of the correlation functions revealed that the statistically acceptable assumption is not Gaussian nor Cauchy distribution but a more general: the Levy distribtuion. In my...
It has been proposed to design and build an modular, a simple and effective cosmic ray detector (muon detector) that can be used both in laboratory measurements and in great physics experiments. The main goal of this system is to provide information from cosmic muons that pass the other detector in both in-beam and off-beam experiments for testing and calibration. Moreover, observation of...
We propose an entirely new method to study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter by means of scattering the two colliding beams at the fixed target. Here we present the results of simulations of the most central triple nuclear collisions with the UrQMD-3.4 model for the beam center-of-mass collision energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV and $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV. The main outcome...
