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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 13: Physik mit schweren Ionen

HK 13.9: Talk

Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 16:15–16:30, F

A new SPS ion programme — Marek Gazdzicki, Benjamin Lungwitz, Michael Mitrovski, Rainer Renfordt, •Tim Schuster, Claudia Strabel, and Herbert Ströbele for the NA49-future collaboration — Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

The NA49-future collaboration has proposed a new experimental program to study hadron production in hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS, using an upgraded version of the NA49 detector.

This program comprises an energy and system size scan of nucleus-nucleus collisions with the objective to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement and to discover the critical point in the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. Reference measurements of proton-nucleus interactions are also planned for a better understanding of the nucleus-nucleus results.

In addition, the collaboration intends to measure the hadron production in hadron-nucleus interactions that is needed for the analysis of data from neutrino (T2K) and cosmic ray (Pierre Auger and KASCADE) experiments.