Feasibility Studies for Quarkonium Production at a Fixed-Target Experiment Using the LHC Proton and Lead Beams (AFTER@LHC). (4th October 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Massacrier, L.; Trzeciak, B.; Fleuret, F.; Hadjidakis, C.; Kikola, D.; Lansberg, J. P.; Shao, H.-S.
• Other Names: Kreps Michal Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in high energy physics. Volume 2015(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-10-04
• Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Periodicals; Particles (Nuclear physics); Periodicals; 539.76
• DOI: 10.1155/2015/986348
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-7357

Abstract

Abstract : 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 in p + p, p + d, and p + A collisions at s N N ≃ 115 GeV and in Pb + p and Pb + A collisions at s N N ≃ 72 GeV with luminosities roughly equivalent to that of the collider mode that is up to 20 fb −1 yr −1 in p + p and p + d collisions, up to 0.6 fb −1 yr −1 in p + A collisions, and up to 10 nb −1 yr −1 in Pb + A collisions. In this paper, we assess the feasibility of such studies by performing fast simulations using the performance of a LHCb-like detector.