A fixed-target programme at the LHC for heavy-ion, hadron, spin and astroparticle physics: AFTER@LHC

D. Kikoła , S.J. Brodsky , G. Cavoto , C. da Silva , F. Donato , M.G. Echevarria , E.G. Ferreiro (1) , C. Hadjidakis (2) , I. Hřivnáčová (2) , A. Klein , A. Kurepin , A. Kusina , J.P. Lansberg (2) , C. Lorcé (3) , F. Lyonnet , Y. Makdisi , L. Massacrier (2) , S. Porteboeuf (4) , C. Quintans , A. Rakotozafindrabe (5) , P. Robbe (6) , W. Scandale , I. Schienbein (7) , J. Seixas , H.S. Shao (8) , A. Signori , N. Topilskaya , B. Trzeciak , A. Uras (9) , J. Wagner , N. Yamanaka (2) , Z. Yang , A. Zelenski

1 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
2 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
3 CPHT - Centre de Physique Théorique [Palaiseau]
4 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
5 DPHN - Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN)
6 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
7 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
8 LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies
9 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon

Thanks to its multi-TeV LHC proton and lead beams, the LHC complex allows one to perform the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever and to study with high precision pp, pd and pA collisions at sNN=115GeV and Pbp and PbA collisions at sNN=72GeV . We present a selection of feasibility studies for the production of quarkonia, open heavy-flavor mesons as well as light-flavor hadrons in pA and PbA collisions using the LHCb and ALICE detectors in a fixed-target mode.

Mots clés: p p: scattering; p nucleus: scattering; heavy ion: scattering; quarkonium: production; lead: beam; CERN LHC Coll; heavy quark; ALICE; LHC-B; spin; 115 GeV-cms/nucleon; 72 GeV-cms/nucleon

Domaines: Physique Nucléaire Expérimentale [nucl-ex]

D. Kikoła, S.J. Brodsky, G. Cavoto, C. da Silva, F. Donato, et al.. A fixed-target programme at the LHC for heavy-ion, hadron, spin and astroparticle physics: AFTER@LHC. 27th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, May 2018, Venice, Italy. pp.971-974, ⟨10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.09.063⟩. ⟨hal-02058426⟩