NA61/SHINE Physics Program — First Results and Future Plans

The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. These goals are to be achieved by performing a two-dimensional phase diagram (T-μB) scan — measurements of hadron production as a function of collision energy and system size. With its large acceptance and good particle identification NA61/SHINE also performs detailed and precise particle production measurements for the T2K, Pierre Auger Observatory and KASCADE-Grande experiments. This contribution summarizes current status and future plans as well as presents the first physics results of the NA61/SHINE experiment.