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Fixed-target physics at LHCb

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2017-08-18 v1

Abstract

The LHCb experiment has the unique possibility, among the LHC experiments, to be operated in fixed target mode, using its internal gas target SMOG. The energy scale achievable at the LHC and the excellent detector capabilities for vertexing, tracking and particle identification allow a wealth of measurements of great interest for cosmic ray and heavy ions physics. We report the first measurements made in this configuration: the measurement of antiproton production in proton-helium collisions and the measurements of open and hidden charm production in proton-argon collisions at sNN=\sqrt{s_\textrm{NN}} = 110 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.1708.05184,
  title  = {Fixed-target physics at LHCb},
  author = {Emilie Maurice},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05184},
  year   = {2017}
}

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LHCP 2017 proceeding

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