By extracting the beam with a bent crystal or by using an internal gas target, the multi-TeV proton and lead LHC beams allow one to perform the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever and to study pp, pd and pA collisions at sNN=115 GeV and Pbp and PbA collisions at sNN=72 GeV with high precision and modern detection techniques. Such studies would address open questions in the domain of the nucleon and nucleus partonic structure at high-x, quark-gluon plasma and, by using longitudinally or transversally polarised targets, spin physics. In this paper, we will review the technical solutions to obtain a high-luminosity fixed-target experiment at the LHC and will discuss their possible implementations with the ALICE and LHCb detectors.
@article{arxiv.1902.10534,
title = {High luminosity fixed-target experiment at the LHC},
author = {C. Hadjidakis and S. J. Brodsky and G. Cavoto and C. Da Silva and F. Donato and M. G. Echevarria and E. G. Ferreiro and I. Hřivnáčová and D. Kikola and A. Klein and A. Kurepin and A. Kusina and J. P. Lansberg and C. Lorcé and F. Lyonnet and Y. Makdisi and L. Massacrier and S. Porteboeuf and C. Quintans and A. Rakotozafindrabe and P. Robbe and W. Scandale and I. Schienbein and J. Seixas and H. S. Shao and A. Signori and N. Topilskaya and B. Trzeciak and A. Uras and J. Wagner and N. Yamanaka and Z. Yang and A. Zelenski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.10534},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures, 9th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions : Hard Probes 2018. (HP2018)