High-density gas target at the LHCb experiment
Abstract
The recently installed internal gas target at LHCb presents exceptional opportunities for an extensive physics program for heavy-ion, hadron, spin, and astroparticle physics. A storage cell placed in the LHC primary vacuum, an advanced Gas Feed System, the availability of multi-TeV proton and ion beams and the recent upgrade of the LHCb detector make this project unique worldwide. In this paper, we outline the main components of the system, the physics prospects it offers and the hardware challenges encountered during its implementation. The commissioning phase has yielded promising results, demonstrating that fixed-target collisions can occur concurrently with the collider mode without compromising efficient data acquisition and high-quality reconstruction of beam-gas and beam-beam interactions.
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@article{arxiv.2407.14200,
title = {High-density gas target at the LHCb experiment},
author = {O. Boente Garcia and G. Bregliozzi and D. Calegari and V. Carassiti and G. Ciullo and V. Coco and P. Collins and P. Costa Pinto and C. De Angelis and P. Di Nezza and R. Dumps and M. Ferro-Luzzi and F. Fleuret and G. Graziani and S. Kotriakhova and P. Lenisa and Q. Lu and C. Lucarelli and E. Maurice and S. Mariani and K. Mattioli and M. Milovanovic and L. L. Pappalardo and D. M. Parragh and A. Piccoli and P. Sainvitu and B. Salvant and F. Sanders and M. Santimaria and J. Sestak and S. Squerzanti and E. Steffens and G. Tagliente and W. Vollenberg and C. Vollinger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14200},
year = {2024}
}
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