201. Colliding and Fixed Target Mode in a Single Experiment -- A Novel Approach to Study the Matter under New Extreme Conditions
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Oleksandr V. Vitiuk, Valery M. Pugatch, Kyrill A. Bugaev, Nazar S. Yakovenko, Pavlo P. Panasiuk, Elizaveta S. Zherebtsova, Vasyl M. Dobishuk, Sergiy B. Chernyshenko, Borys E. Grinyuk, Violetta Sagun, and Oleksii Ivanytskyi
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Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,triple nuclear (hadron) collisions ,fixed target ,high net baryonic charge densities ,transverse momentum redistribution effect ,enhancement of proton and Λ-hyperon production ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,Nuclear Theory ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Medicine ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Here, we propose a novel approach to experimentally and theoretically study the properties of QCD matter under new extreme conditions, namely having an initial temperature over 300 MeV and baryonic charge density over three times the values of the normal nuclear density. According to contemporary theoretical knowledge, such conditions were not accessible during the early Universe evolution and are not accessible now in the known astrophysical phenomena. To achieve these new extreme conditions, we proposed performing high-luminosity experiments at LHC or other colliders by means of scattering the two colliding beams at the nuclei of a solid target that is fixed at their interaction region. Under plausible assumptions, we estimate the reaction rate for the p+C+p and Pb+Pb+Pb reactions and discuss the energy deposition into the target and possible types of fixed targets for such reactions. To simulate the triple nuclear collisions, we employed the well-known UrQMD 3.4 model for the beam center-of-mass collision energies sNN = 2.76 TeV. As a result of our modeling, we found that, in the most central and simultaneous triple nuclear collisions, the initial baryonic charge density is approximately three times higher than the one achieved in the ordinary binary nuclear collisions at this energy.
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- 2022
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