LHCspin aims to upgrade the recently installed unpolarized gas target (SMOG2) in front of the LHCb spectrometer to a polarised one. This task requires, in the next few years, innovative solutions and cutting-edge technologies, and will allow the exploration of a unique kinematic regime and new reaction processes. With the instrumentation of the proposed target system, LHCb will become the first experiment delivering simultaneously unpolarized beam-beam at s = 14 TeV, and unpolarized and polarized beam-target collisions at sNN∼ 100 GeV. LHCspin could open new physics frontiers exploiting the potential of the most powerful collider and one of the most advanced detectors.
@article{arxiv.2111.09611,
title = {The LHCspin project},
author = {P. Di Nezza and V. Carassiti and G. Ciullo and P. Lenisa and L. L. Pappalardo and M. Santimaria and E. Steffens and G. Tagliente},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09611},
year = {2021}
}