2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/81117NA60, a follow-up of NA38/50 at the CERN-SPS, is a third generation heavy-ion experiment finally approved in November 2000 for heavy-ion runs in 2002 and 2003. This article will report about the main motivations which lead to this experiment, the main detector concept and the foreseen physics performance.4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Moriond 2001 "QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions"Nuclear Experimenttext