arXiv:1212.3450·v1·High Energy Physics — Experiment
Prospectives for A Fixed-Target ExpeRiment at the LHC: AFTER@LHC
J. P. Lansberg🇫🇷 · V. Chambert🇫🇷 · J. P. Didelez🇫🇷 · B. Genolini🇫🇷 · C. Hadjidakis🇫🇷 · C. Lorce🇫🇷 · P. Rosier🇫🇷 · M. Anselmino🇮🇹 · R. Arnaldi🇮🇹 · E. Scomparin🇮🇹 · S. J. Brodsky🇺🇸 · E. G. Ferreiro🇪🇸
Abstract
We argue that the concept of a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment with the proton or lead-ion LHC beams extracted by a bent crystal would offer a number of ground-breaking precision-physics opportunities. The multi-TeV LHC beams will allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever performed. The fixed-target mode has the advantage of allowing for high luminosities, spin measurements with a polarised target, and access over the full backward rapidity domain --uncharted until now-- up to x_F ~ -1.
Comments: 6 pages, 1 table, LaTeX. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2012), 4-11 July 2012, Melbourne, Australia