A fixed-target experiment using the LHC beams (AFTER@LHC): the physics program and the current status

by Daniel Kikola (Warsaw University of Technology)

Monday 29 Jan 2018, 14:15 → 16:45 Europe/Berlin

3344 (TUM - Physics Department - Garching)

A fixed-target experiment using the LHC beams (AFTER@LHC) offers a broad spectrum of physics opportunities in both particle and nuclear physics.
A wide kinematic coverage of a fixed-target setup combined with the high intensity of the multi-TeV LHC beams (which facilitate p+p and p+A collisions
at $\sqrt S_{NN}$=115 GeV and Pb+A collisions at $\sqrt S_{NN}$=72 GeV) allow for studies of the nuclear phenomena with rare probes,
and measurements at high-x regime for particle and astroparticle physics. Moreover, installation of a polarized target offers a novel opportunity
to study the spin structure of a polarized nucleon with the Drell-Yan process and gluon-sensitive probes (quarkonium and open charm mesons).

I will review the proposed physics program and possible implementation of AFTER@LHC, including an installation of a polarized target.
Next, I will present the sensitivity studies for Drell-Yan, quarkonia, heavy-flavor and light-flavor hadron measurements with LHCb and
ALICE detectors, with focus on heavy-ion and spin physics.
Finally, I will discuss the current status of the AFTER@LHC project.

 

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