%0 Journal Article %T Results from the NA61/SHINE ion program %A Tobiasz Czopowicz %A for the NA61/SHINE Collaboration %J Physics %D 2014 %I arXiv %R 10.1142/9789814663618_0061 %X 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 ($T$-$\mu_{B}$) scan - measurements of hadron production properties in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and system size. This contribution summarizes current the status and future plans as well as presents the first physics results of the NA61/SHINE ion program. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4392v1