feasibility studies for quarkonium production at a fixed target experiment using the lhc proton and lead beams after lhc

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.05145
• Publication Date: 2015-01-01
• Authors: Massacrier, L.; Trzeciak, B.; Fleuret, F.; Hadjidakis, C.; Kikola, D.; Lansberg, J. P.; Shao, H.-S.
• Keywords: [PHYS.HEXP] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]; Physics; QC1-999; FOS: Physical sciences; 7. Clean energy; 01 natural sciences; High Energy Physics - Experiment; [PHYS.HPHE] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph]; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph]; 0103 physical sciences; [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]

Being used in the fixed-target mode, the multi-TeV LHC proton and lead beams allow for studies of heavy-flavour hadroproduction with unprecedented precision at backward rapidities, far negative Feynman-x, using conventional detection techniques. At the nominal LHC energies, quarkonia can be studied in detail inp+p,p+d, andp+Acollisions atsNN≃115 GeV and in Pb +pand Pb +Acollisions atsNN≃72 GeV with luminosities roughly equivalent to that of the collider mode that is up to 20 fb−1 yr−1inp+pandp+dcollisions, up to 0.6 fb−1 yr−1inp+Acollisions, and up to 10 nb−1 yr−1in Pb +Acollisions. In this paper, we assess the feasibility of such studies by performing fast simulations using the performance of a LHCb-like detector.