XVIII Polish Workshop on Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: Strange and Heavy Flavour Physics

Session

Session 3

13 Dec 2025, 14:00

A-1-06 (Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science JU)

Conveners

Session 3

• Andrzej Rybicki (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

43. Some thoughts on Silicon Pixel Detectors, disorganized, still hopefully interesting, reflecting the personal point of view of the speaker

Paolo Martinengo (CERN)

13/12/2025, 14:00

I will try to review some aspects of the present tecnological developments, like pixel pitch or stitching, from a critical point of view.

15. Open charm measurements with the upgraded NA61/SHINE detector system

Mateusz Bajda (Jagiellonian University)

13/12/2025, 14:20

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) investigates the properties of strongly interacting matter by studying hadron production in hadron–hadron, hadron–nucleus, and nucleus–nucleus collisions over a wide range of beam energies. One of the main goals of the program is to measure open charm production, which provides a sensitive probe of the medium produced in...

22. Testing c-cbar creation properties with correlations at the CERN SPS

Marek Gazdzicki (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce)

13/12/2025, 14:40

I will summarise the results presented in two recent papers:
https://inspirehep.net/literature/2655602
https://inspirehep.net/literature/2899809

12. Measurement of charged and neutral kaons in Ar+Sc collisions at the NA61/SHINE experiment

Angelika Tefelska (Politechnika Warszawska)

13/12/2025, 15:00

NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS is a multipurpose fixed-target experiment designed for measurements of charged and neutral hadrons. The main physics goals of the NA61/SHINE strong interaction program are to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement and to search for signatures of the critical point of strongly interacting matter. These objectives are pursued by performing a comprehensive...

10. Theoretical status of the kaon isospin anomaly

Francesco Giacosa (Jan Kochanowski University)

13/12/2025, 15:20

In this talk, I review recent theoretical efforts to understand the excess of charged over neutral kaons measured by the NA61/SHINE collaboration. This excess signals a much larger breaking of isospin symmetry than expected. In particular, the results of hadron resonance gas approach(es) and of the UrQM simulation, as well as considerations involving the electromagnetic interaction and the...

14. News on charged hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions from NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

Oleksandra Panova (IFJ PAN)

13/12/2025, 15:45

NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose fixed-target experiment located at the CERN SPS. One of its main goals is to study the onset of deconfinement and the properties of strongly interacting matter. For this purpose, a unique two-dimensional scan in collision energy (√sNN = 5.1 − 17.3 GeV) and system size was performed. Results on charged hadron spectra produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions, including...