Heavy ions at the Future Circular Collider
Abstract
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) Study is aimed at assessing the physics potential and the technical feasibility of a new collider with centre-of-mass energies, in the hadron-hadron collision mode, seven times larger than the nominal LHC energies. Operating such machine with heavy ions is an option that is being considered in the accelerator design studies. It would provide, for example, Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 39 and 63 TeV, respectively, per nucleon-nucleon collision, with integrated luminosities above 30 nb^-1 per month for Pb-Pb. This is a report by the working group on heavy-ion physics of the FCC Study. First ideas on the physics opportunities with heavy ions at the FCC are presented, covering the physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, of gluon saturation, of photon-induced collisions, as well as connections with other fields of high-energy physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.01389,
title = {Heavy ions at the Future Circular Collider},
author = {A. Dainese and U. A. Wiedemann and N. Armesto and D. d'Enterria and J. M. Jowett and J. -P. Lansberg and J. G. Milhano and C. A. Salgado and M. Schaumann and M. van Leeuwen and J. L. Albacete and A. Andronic and P. Antonioli and L. Apolinario and S. Bass and A. Beraudo and A. Bilandzic and S. Borsanyi and P. Braun-Munzinger and Z. Chen and L. Cunqueiro Mendez and G. S. Denicol and K. J. Eskola and S. Floerchinger and H. Fujii and P. Giubellino and C. Greiner and J. F. Grosse-Oetringhaus and C. -M. Ko and P. Kotko and K. Krajczar and K. Kutak and M. Laine and Y. Liu and M. P. Lombardo and M. Luzum and C. Marquet and S. Masciocchi and V. Okorokov and J. -F. Paquet and H. Paukkunen and E. Petreska and T. Pierog and M. Ploskon and C. Ratti and A. H. Rezaeian and W. Riegler and J. Rojo and C. Roland and A. Rossi and G. P. Salam and S. Sapeta and R. Schicker and C. Schmidt and J. Stachel and J. Uphoff and A. van Hameren and K. Watanabe and B. -W. Xiao and F. Yuan and D. Zaslavsky and K. Zhou and P. Zhuang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01389},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
57 pages, 28 figures. This document will be part of a CERN Yellow Report on Physics at FCC-hh