Spin Physics with a fixed-target experiment at the LHC
Abstract
The multi-TeV proton and ion beams of the LHC would allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiment ever. In particular, , d and A collisions could be performed at = 115~GeV, as well as Pb and PbA collisions at = 72~GeV, in a parasitic way by making use of the already existing LHCb and ALICE detectors in fixed-target mode. This would offer the possibility to carry out a ground-breaking physics program, to study the nucleon and nuclear structure at high , the spin content of the nucleon and the phases of the nuclear matter from a new rapidity viewpoint. In this talk I focus on the spin physics axis of the full program developed so far by the AFTER@LHC study group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.03379,
title = {Spin Physics with a fixed-target experiment at the LHC},
author = {M. G. Echevarria and S. J. Brodsky and G. Cavoto and C. Da Silva and F. Donato and E. G. Ferreiro and C. Hadjidakis 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:1903.03379},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the 23rd International Spin Physics Symposium (SPIN 2018), Ferrara, Italy, September 10-14, 2018