The multi-TeV proton and ion beams of the LHC would allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiment ever. In particular, pp, pd and pA collisions could be performed at √sNN = 115 GeV, as well as Pbp and PbA collisions at √sNN = 72 GeV, in a parasitic way by making use of the already existing LHCb and ALICE detectors in fixed-target mode. This would offer the possibility to carry out a ground-breaking physics program, to study the nucleon and nuclear structure at high x, the spin content of the nucleon and the phases of the nuclear matter from a new rapidity viewpoint. In this talk I focus on the spin physics axis of the full program developed so far by the AFTER@LHC study group.

Spin physics with a fixed-target experiment at the LHC

Donato F.;Signori A.;
2018-01-01

Abstract

The multi-TeV proton and ion beams of the LHC would allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiment ever. In particular, pp, pd and pA collisions could be performed at √sNN = 115 GeV, as well as Pbp and PbA collisions at √sNN = 72 GeV, in a parasitic way by making use of the already existing LHCb and ALICE detectors in fixed-target mode. This would offer the possibility to carry out a ground-breaking physics program, to study the nucleon and nuclear structure at high x, the spin content of the nucleon and the phases of the nuclear matter from a new rapidity viewpoint. In this talk I focus on the spin physics axis of the full program developed so far by the AFTER@LHC study group.
2018
23rd International Spin Physics Symposium, SPIN 2018
Ferrara, Italy
2018
346
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https://pos.sissa.it/346/063
hadronic collisions; fixed-target experiment at the LHC; spin physics; transverse momentum distributions
Echevarria M. G.; Brodsky S. J.; Cavoto G.; Da Silva C.; Donato F.; Ferreiro E. G.; Hadjidakis C.; Hrivnacova I.; Kikola D.; Klein A.; Kurepin A.; Kusina A.; Lansberg J. P.; Lorce C.; Lyonnet F.; Makdisi Y.; Massacrier L.; Porteboeuf S.; Quintans C.; Rakotozafindrabe A.; Robbe P.; Scandale W.; Schienbein I.; Seixas J.; Shao H. S.; Signori A.; Topilskaya N.; Trzeciak B.; Uras A.; Wagner J.; Yamanaka N.; Yang Z.; Zelenski A.
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