@article{3064143,
    title = "NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: Beams and detector system",
    author = "Abgrall, N. and Andreeva, O. and Aduszkiewicz, A. and Ali, Y. and Anticic, T. and Antoniou, N. and Baatar, B. and Bay, F. and Blondel, A. and Blumer, J. and Bogomilov, M. and Bogusz, M. and Bravar, A. and Brzychczyk, J. and Bunyatov, S.A. and Christakoglou, P. and Cirkovic, M. and Czopowicz, T. and Davis, N. and Debieux, S. and Dembinski, H. and Diakonos, F. and Luise, S.D. and Dominik, W. and Drozhzhova, T. and Dumarchez, J. and Dynowski, K. and Engel, R. and Efthymiopoulos, I. and Ereditato, A. and Fabich, A. and Feofilov, G.A. and Fodor, Z. and Fulop, A. and Gaździcki, M. and Golubeva, M. and Grebieszkow, K. and Grzeszczuk, A. and Guber, F. and Haesler, A. and Hasegawa, T. and Hierholzer, M. and Idczak, R. and Igolkin, S. and Ivashkin, A. and Jokovic, D. and Kadija, K. and Kapoyannis, A. and Kaptur, E. and Kielczewska, D. and Kirejczyk, M. and Kisiel, J. and Kiss, T. and Kleinfelder, S. and Kobayashi, T. and Kolesnikov, V.I. and Kolev, D. and Kondratiev, V.P. and Korzenev, A. and Koversarski, P. and Kowalski, S. and Krasnoperov, A. and Kurepin, A. and Larsen, D. and Laszlo, A. and Lyubushkin, V.V. and Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M. and Majka, Z. and Maksiak, B. and Malakhov, A.I. and Maletic, D. and Manglunki, D. and Manic, D. and Marchionni, A. and Marcinek, A. and Marin, V. and Marton, K. and Mathes, H.-J. and Matulewicz, T. and Matveev, V. and Melkumov, G.L. and Messina, M. and Mrówczyński, S. and Murphy, S. and Nakadaira, T. and Nirkko, M. and Nishikawa, K. and Palczewski, T. and Palla, G. and Panagiotou, A.D. and Paul, T. and Peryt, W. and Petukhov, O. and Pistillo, C. and Płaneta, R. and Pluta, J. and Popov, B.A. and Posiadala, M. and Puławski, S. and Puzovic, J. and Rauch, W. and Ravonel, M. and Redij, A. and Renfordt, R. and Richter-Ws, E. and Robert, A. and Röhrich, D. and Rondio, E. and Rossi, B. and Roth, M. and Rubbia, A. and Rustamov, A. and Rybczyński, M. and Sadovsky, A. and Sakashita, K. and Savic, M. and Schmidt, K. and Sekiguchi, T. and Seyboth, P. and Sgalaberna, D. and Shibata, M. and Sipos, R. and Skrzypczak, E. and Słodkowski, M. and Sosin, Z. and Staszel, P. and Stefanek, G. and Stepaniak, J. and Stroebele, H. and Susa, T. and Szuba, M. and Tada, M. and Tereshchenko, V. and Tolyhi, T. and Tsenov, R. and Turko, L. and Ulrich, R. and Unger, M. and Vassiliou, M. and Veberic, D. and Vechernin, V.V. and Vesztergombi, G. and Vinogradov, L. and Wilczek, A. and Włodarczyk, Z. and Wojtaszek-Szwarz, A. and Wyszyński, O. and Zambelli, L. and Zipper, W.",
    journal = "Journal of Instrumentation",
    year = "2014",
    volume = "9",
    number = "6",
    publisher = "INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING",
    issn = "1748-0221",
    doi = "10.1088/1748-0221/9/06/P06005",
    keywords = "Detectors;  Experiments;  Hadrons;  High energy physics;  Ion sources;  Isotopes;  Particle accelerators;  Protons;  Radioactivity, Atom trap;  Experimental facilities;  Fragment separators;  Neutrino experiments;  Nucleus-nucleus collision;  Particle Identification Method;  Super proton synchrotrons;  Time projection chambers, Plant shutdowns",
    abstract = "NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a multi-purpose experimental facility to study hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. It recorded the first physics data with hadron beams in 2009 and with ion beams (secondary 7Be beams) in 2011. NA61/SHINE has greatly profited from the long development of the CERN proton and ion sources and the accelerator chain as well as the H2 beamline of the CERN North Area. The latter has recently been modified to also serve as a fragment separator as needed to produce the Be beams for NA61/SHINE. Numerous components of the NA61/SHINE set-up were inherited from its predecessors, in particular, the last one, the NA49 experiment. Important new detectors and upgrades of the legacy equipment were introduced by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration. This paper describes the state of the NA61/SHINE facility - the beams and the detector system - before the CERN Long Shutdown I, which started in March 2013. © CERN 2014 for the benefit of the NA61/SHINE collaboration.."
}