Physics perspectives with AFTER@LHC (A Fixed Target ExpeRiment at LHC)

L. Massacrier; M. Anselmino; R. Arnaldi; S.J. Brodsky; V. Chambert; C. Da Silva; J.P. Didelez; M.G. Echevarria; E.G. Ferreiro; F. Fleuret; Y. Gao; B. Genolini; C. Hadjidakis; I. Hřivnáčová; D. Kikola; A. Klein; A. Kurepin; A. Kusina; J.P. Lansberg; C. Lorcé; F. Lyonnet; G. Martinez; A. Nass; C. Pisano; P. Robbe; I. Schienbein; M. Schlegel; E. Scomparin; J. Seixas; H.S. Shao; A. Signori; E. Steffens; L. Szymanowski; N. Topilskaya; B. Trzeciak; U.I. Uggerhøj; A. Uras; R. Ulrich; J. Wagner; N. Yamanaka; Z. Yang

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201817110001

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EPJ Web Conf., 171 (2018) 10001

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 171, 2018 17^th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2017)


Article Number		10001
Number of page(s)		6
Section		Detector Upgrades and Physics Perspectives
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817110001
Published online		02 February 2018

EPJ Web of Conferences 171, 10001 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817110001

Physics perspectives with AFTER@LHC (A Fixed Target ExpeRiment at LHC)

L. Massacrier¹^*, M. Anselmino², R. Arnaldi², S.J. Brodsky³, V. Chambert¹, C. Da Silva⁴, J.P. Didelez¹, M.G. Echevarria⁵, E.G. Ferreiro⁶, F. Fleuret⁷, Y. Gao⁸, B. Genolini¹, C. Hadjidakis¹, I. Hřivnáčová¹, D. Kikola⁹, A. Klein⁴, A. Kurepin¹⁰, A. Kusina¹¹, J.P. Lansberg¹, C. Lorcé¹², F. Lyonnet¹³, G. Martinez¹⁴, A. Nass¹⁵, C. Pisano¹⁶, P. Robbe¹⁷, I. Schienbein¹⁸, M. Schlegel¹⁹, E. Scomparin², J. Seixas²⁰, H.S. Shao²¹, A. Signori²², E. Steffens²³, L. Szymanowski²⁴, N. Topilskaya¹⁰, B. Trzeciak²⁵, U.I. Uggerhøj²⁶, A. Uras²⁷, R. Ulrich²⁸, J. Wagner²⁴, N. Yamanaka¹ and Z. Yang⁸

¹ IPNO, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
² Dip. di Fisica and INFN Sez. Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, Torino, Italy
³ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, USA
⁴ LANL, P-25, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
⁵ INFN Sez. Pavia, Via Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy
⁶ Dept. de Física de Partículas, USC, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
⁷ LLR, École Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
⁸ CHEP, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
⁹ Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
¹⁰ Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
¹¹ Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland
¹² CPhT, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
¹³ Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
¹⁴ SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
¹⁵ Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
¹⁶ Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
¹⁷ LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
¹⁸ LPSC, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
¹⁹ Institute for Theoretical Physics, Tübingen U., Tübingen, Germany
²⁰ LIP and IST, Lisbon, Portugal
²¹ Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7589, LPTHE, F-75005 Paris, France CNRS, UMR 7589, LPTHE, F-75005 Paris, France
²² Theory Center, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
²³ Physics Institute, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
²⁴ National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Hoza 69, 00-681, Warsaw, Poland
²⁵ Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
²⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark
²⁷ IPNL, Université Claude Bernard Lyon-I, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
²⁸ Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

^* e-mail: massacrier@ipno.in2p3.fr

Published online: 2 February 2018

Abstract

AFTER@LHC is an ambitious fixed-target project in order to address open questions in the domain of proton and neutron spins, Quark Gluon Plasma and high-x physics, at the highest energy ever reached in the fixed-target mode. Indeed, thanks to the highly energetic 7 TeV proton and 2.76 A.TeV lead LHC beams, center-of-mass energies as large as = 115 GeV in pp/pA and = 72 GeV in AA can be reached, corresponding to an uncharted energy domain between SPS and RHIC. We report two main ways of performing fixed-target collisions at the LHC, both allowing for the usage of one of the existing LHC experiments. In these proceedings, after discussing the projected luminosities considered for one year of data taking at the LHC, we will present a selection of projections for light and heavy-flavour production.

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