| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 204, 2019
XXIV International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems “Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics” (Baldin ISHEPP XXIV)
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| Article Number | 03002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920403002 | |
| Published online | 03 April 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920403002
Some proposed fixed target experiments with the LHC beams
Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow, Russia
* e-mail: topilska@inr.ru
** e-mail: kurepin@inr.ru
Published online: 3 April 2019
The physics opportunities offered by using the multi-TeV LHC beams for a fixed target experiment have been widely discussed in recent years. This mode is convenient to investigate rare processes of particle production and polarization phenomena because the expected luminosity exceeds the luminosity of the collider. The main physical goals of these experiments are: i) investigations of the large-x gluon, antiquark and heavy quark content in the nucleon and nucleus; ii) investigations of the dynamics and spin of quarks and gluons inside nucleus; iii) studies of the ion-ion collisions between SPS and RHIC energies towards large rapidities. With the LHC lead beam energy scan on a fixed target it would be possible to investigate the energy range up to 72 GeV to search for the critical point for the phase transition to the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP).
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