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Description
NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The main goals of the experiment are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In order to reach these goals, a study of hadron production properties is performed in nucleus-nucleus, proton-proton and proton-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and size of the colliding nuclei. The experiment has recently completed data acquisition for its original programme on strong interactions. The Collaboration has gathered rich data on collisions of ions in a two-dimensional scan:varying the beam energy and the sizes of colliding nuclei. The most recent analysis of hadron production in ^40Ar+^45Sc and ^7Be+^9Be interactions deliver some puzzling results which none of the theoretical models can reproduce.
In this talk, the newest preliminary results on identified hadron spectra produced in Ar+Sc and Be+Be collisions at five beam momenta (19A, 30A, 40A, 75A and 150A GeV/c) will be shown. The kinematic distributions and measured multiplicities of identified hadrons will be compared with NA61/SHINE and NA49 p+p and Pb+Pb results, as well as with available world data.
