Physics opportunities with a fixed target experiment at the LHC (AFTER@LHC)
Résumé
By extracting the beam with a bent crystal or by using an internal gas target, the multi-TeV proton and lead LHC beams allow one to perform the most energetic fixed-target experiments (AFTER@LHC) and to study $p$+$p$ and $p$+A collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=115 GeV and Pb+$p$ and Pb+A collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=72 GeV. Such studies would address open questions in the domain of the nucleon and nucleus partonic structure at high-$x$, quark-gluon plasma and, by using longitudinally or transversally polarised targets, spin physics. In this paper, we discuss the physics opportunities of a fixed-target experiment at the LHC and we report on the possible technical implementations of a high-luminosity experiment. We finally present feasibility studies for Drell-Yan, open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production, with an emphasis on high-$x$ and spin physics.
Mots clés
talk: Kaist 2017/10/16
p p: scattering
p p: colliding beams
quarkonium: hadroproduction
p nucleus: interaction
lead
heavy ion: scattering
quark gluon: plasma
gas: target
CERN LHC Coll
spin
Drell-Yan process
polarized target
bent crystal
heavy quark
nucleon: structure function
nucleus: structure function
experimental results
72 GeV-cms/nucleon
115 GeV-cms
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