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Heavy-flavour studies with a high-luminosity fixed-target experiment at the LHC
B. Trzeciak, S. J. Brodsky, G. Cavoto +31
Extraction of the multi-TeV proton and lead LHC beams with a bent crystal or by using an internal gas target allows one to perform the most energetic fixed-target experiment ever.…
Quantum speedup for track reconstruction in particle accelerators
Duarte Magano, Akshat Kumar, Mārtiņš Kālis +10
To investigate the fundamental nature of matter and its interactions, particles are accelerated to very high energies and collided inside detectors, producing a multitude of other…
Nuclear dependence of light neutral meson production in p-A collisions at 400 GeV with NA60
R. Arnaldi, K. Banicz, K. Borer +51
The NA60 experiment has studied low-mass muon pair production in proton-nucleus collisions with a system of Be, Cu, In, W, Pb and U targets, using a 400 GeV proton beam at the CERN…
Spin Physics with a fixed-target experiment at the LHC
M. G. Echevarria, S. J. Brodsky, G. Cavoto +30
The multi-TeV proton and ion beams of the LHC would allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiment ever. In particular, , d and A collisions could be performed at $…
High luminosity fixed-target experiment at the LHC
C. Hadjidakis, S. J. Brodsky, G. Cavoto +30
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 experime…
Ultra-peripheral-collision studies in the fixed-target mode with the proton and lead LHC beams
N. Yamanaka, C. Hadjidakis, D. Kikola +30
We address the physics case related to the studies of ultra-peripheral pH, pPb, PbH, and PbPb collisions in the fixed-target mode at the LHC. In particular, we discuss how one can…
Probing the high-x content of the nuclei in the fixed-target mode at the LHC
A. Kusina, C. Hadjidakis, D. Kikola +30
Using the LHCb and ALICE detectors in the fixed-target mode at the LHC offers unprecedented possibilities to study the quark, gluon and heavy-quark content of the proton and nuclei…
A fixed-target programme at the LHC for heavy-ion, hadron, spin and astroparticle physics: AFTER@LHC
D. Kikoła, S. J. Brodsky, G. Cavoto +30
Thanks to its multi-TeV LHC proton and lead beams, the LHC complex allows one to perform the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever and to study with high precision pp, pd an…
A Fixed-Target Programme at the LHC: Physics Case and Projected Performances for Heavy-Ion, Hadron, Spin and Astroparticle Studies
C. Hadjidakis, D. Kikoła, J. P. Lansberg +29
We review the context, the motivations and the expected performances of a comprehensive and ambitious fixed-target program using the multi-TeV proton and ion LHC beams. We also pro…
From identical S- and P-wave pT/M spectra to maximally distinct polarizations: probing NRQCD with chi states
Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenco, Mariana Araujo +3
A global analysis of ATLAS and CMS measurements reveals that, at mid-rapidity, the directly-produced , and J/ mesons have differential cross sections of seeming…
Universal kinematic scaling as a probe of factorized long-distance effects in high-energy quarkonium production
Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenco, Mariana Araujo +1
Dimensional analysis reveals general kinematic scaling rules for the momentum, mass, and energy dependence of Drell-Yan and quarkonium cross sections. Their application to mid-rapi…
Physics perspectives with AFTER@LHC (A Fixed Target ExpeRiment at LHC)
L. Massacrier, M. Anselmino, R. Arnaldi +38
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- physics, at the highest…
Heavy-ion Physics at a Fixed-Target Experiment Using the LHC Proton and Lead Beams (AFTER@LHC): Feasibility Studies for Quarkonium and Drell-Yan Production
B. Trzeciak, C. Da Silva, E. G. Ferreiro +7
We outline the case for heavy-ion-physics studies using the multi-TeV lead LHC beams in the fixed-target mode. After a brief contextual reminder, we detail the possible contributio…
Quarkonium production at the LHC: a data-driven analysis of NRQCD's predictions
Pietro Faccioli, Mariana Araújo, Valentin Knünz +3
While non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) foresees a variety of elementary quarkonium production mechanisms naturally leading to state-dependent kinematic patterns, the LHC cross sections…
Quarkonium production at the LHC: a phenomenological analysis of surprisingly simple data patterns
Pietro Faccioli, Mariana Araújo, Valentin Knünz +3
The LHC quarkonium production measurements reveal a startling observation: the J/, (2S), and (nS) -differential cross sections are compatible with on…
Quarkonium production in the LHC era: a polarized perspective
Pietro Faccioli, Valentin Knuenz, Carlos Lourenco +2
Polarization measurements are usually considered as the most difficult challenge for the QCD description of quarkonium production. In fact, global data fits for the determination o…
Minimal physical constraints on the angular distributions of two-body boson decays
Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenco, Joao Seixas +1
The angular distribution of the two-body decay of a boson of unknown properties is strongly constrained by angular momentum conservation and rotation invariance, as well as by the…
Observation of chi_c and chi_b nuclear suppression via dilepton polarization measurements
Pietro Faccioli, Joao Seixas
We demonstrate that it is possible to use the polarization of vector quarkonia, measured from dilepton event samples, as an instrument to study the suppression of chi_c and chi_b i…
Towards the experimental clarification of quarkonium polarization
Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenco, Joao Seixas +1
We highlight issues which are often underestimated in the experimental analyses on quarkonium polarization: the relation between the parameters of the angular distributions and the…
A new approach to quarkonium polarization studies
Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenco, Joao Seixas
Significant progress in understanding quarkonium production requires improved polarization measurements, fully considering the intrinsic multidimensionality of the problem. We prop…
Rotation-invariant relations in vector meson decays into fermion pairs
Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenco, Joao Seixas
The rotational properties of angular momentum eigenstates imply the existence of a frame-independent relation among the parameters of the decay distribution of vector mesons into f…
First results on angular distributions of thermal dileptons in nuclear collisions
NA60 Collaboration, R. Arnaldi, K. Banicz +50
The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied dimuon production in 158A GeV In-In collisions. The strong excess of pairs above the known sources found in the complete mass region…
Thermal Dimuon Emission in In-In at the CERN SPS
M. Floris
The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied low-mass dimuon production in 158A GeV In-In collisions. A significant excess of pairs is observed above the yield expected from neu…
First Measurement of the rho Spectral Function in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
NA60 Collaboration, R. Arnaldi
We report on a precision measurement of low-mass muon pairs in 158 AGeV indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS. A significant excess of pairs is observed above the yield expected…