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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.…
Impact of LHC vector boson production in heavy ion collisions on strange PDFs
A. Kusina, T. Ježo, D. B. Clark +11
The extraction of the strange quark parton distribution function (PDF) poses a long-standing puzzle. Measurements from neutrino-nucleus deep inelastic scattering (DIS) experiments…
nCTEQ PDFs at the LHC: Vector boson production in heavy ion collisions
The nCTEQ Collaboration, D. B. Clark, E. Godat +13
Extraction of the strange quark PDF is a long-standing puzzle. We use the nCTEQ nPDFs with uncertainties to study the impact of the LHC W/Z production data on both the flavor diffe…
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…
xFitter 2.0.0: Heavy quark matching scales: Unifying the FFNS and VFNS
The xFitter Developers' Team, :, V. Bertone +15
xFitter is an open-source package that provides a framework for the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton for many different kinds of analyses in…
PDF Flavor Determination and the nCTEQ PDFs
nCTEQ Collaboration, E. Godat, D. B. Clark +12
Recent LHC W/Z vector boson production data in proton-lead collisions are quite sensitive to the heavier flavors (especially the strange PDF), and this complements the information…
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…
LHC data and its impact on nCTEQ15 PDFs
D. B. Clark, E. Godat, T. Jezo +9
The LHC heavy ion data for W/Z production can provide new incisive information on the PDFs. This data is sensitive to the heavier quark flavors (strange and charm) in a high energy…
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…
Vacuum Stability and Perturbativity of SU(3) Scalars
Matti Heikinheimo, Kristjan Kannike, Florian Lyonnet +3
We calculate the vacuum stability conditions and renormalisation group equations for the extensions of standard model with a higher colour multiplet scalar up to the representation…
Impact of the heavy quark matching scales in PDF fits
The xFitter Developers Team, V. Bertone, D. Britzger +14
We investigate the impact of displaced heavy quark matching scales in a global fit. The heavy quark matching scale determines at which energy scale the QCD theory trans…
LHC lead data and nuclear PDFs
A. Kusina, F. Lyonnet, D. B. Clark +6
We compare predictions of nCTEQ15 nuclear parton distribution functions with proton-lead vector boson production data from the LHC. We select data sets that are most sensitive to n…
Single-Transverse-Spin-Asymmetry studies with a fixed-target experiment using the LHC beams (AFTER@LHC)
J. P. Lansberg, M. Anselmino, R. Arnaldi +34
We discuss the potential of AFTER@LHC to measure single-transverse-spin asymmetries in open-charm and bottomonium production. With a HERMES-like hydrogen polarised target, such mea…
Vector boson production in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions at the LHC and its impact on nCTEQ15 PDFs
A. Kusina, F. Lyonnet, D. B. Clark +6
We provide a comprehensive comparison of W/Z vector boson production data in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions at the LHC with predictions obtained using the nCTEQ15 PDFs. We id…
On the impact of kinetic mixing in beta functions at two-loop
Florian Lyonnet
Kinetic mixing is a fundamental property of models with a gauge symmetry involving several group factors. In this paper, we perform a numerical study of the impact…
PyR@TE 2: A Python tool for computing RGEs at two-loop
Florian Lyonnet, Ingo Schienbein
Renormalization group equations are an essential tool for the description of theories accross different energy scales. Even though their expressions at two-loop for an arbitrary ga…
NLO+NLL Collider Bounds, Dirac Fermion and Scalar Dark Matter in the B-L Model
Michael Klasen, Florian Lyonnet, Farinaldo S. Queiroz
Baryon and lepton numbers being accidental global symmetries of the Standard Model (SM), it is natural to promote them to local symmetries. However, to preserve anomaly freedom, on…
Frontiers of QCD with Precision nPDFs
Aleksander Kusina, Florian Lyonnet, Fredrick I. Olness +1
Searches for new physics will increasingly depend on identifying deviations from precision Standard Model (SM) predictions. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) will necessarily play a cen…
Intrinsic bottom and its impact on heavy new physics at the LHC
Florian Lyonnet
Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and…
Electroweak top-quark pair production at the LHC with bosons to NLO QCD in POWHEG
R. Bonciani, T. Jezo, M. Klasen +2
We present the calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the electroweak production of top-antitop pairs at the CERN LHC in the presence of a new neutral gauge boson. The correctio…