The opportunities which are offered by a next generation and multi-purpose fixed-target experiment exploiting the proton and lead LHC beams extracted by a bent crystal are outlined. In particular, such an experiment can greatly complement facilities with lepton beams by unraveling the partonic structure of polarised and unpolarised nucleons and of nuclei, especially at large momentum fractions.
@article{arxiv.1310.6195,
title = {Studying the high x frontier with A Fixed-Target ExpeRiment at the LHC},
author = {A. Rakotozafindrabe and M. Anselmino and R. Arnaldi and S. J. Brodsky and V. Chambert and J. P. Didelez and E. G. Ferreiro and F. Fleuret and B. Genolini and C. Hadjidakis and J. P. Lansberg and C. Lorce and P. Rosier and I. Schienbein and E. Scomparin and U. I. Uggerhoj},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6195},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Contributed to the XXI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, DIS 2013, 22-26 April 2013, Marseille, France, to appear in PoS http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=191, 6 pages, 2 figures