1. Heavy-flavour studies with a high-luminosity fixed-target experiment at the LHC
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Trzeciak, B., Brodsky, S. J., Cavoto, G., Da Silva, C., Echevarria, M. G., Ferreiro, E. G., Hadjidakis, C., Haque, R., Hrivnacova, I., Kikola, D., Klein, A., Kurepin, A., Kusina, A., Lansberg, J. P., Lorce, C., Lyonnet, F., Makdisi, Y., Massacrier, L., Porteboeuf, S., Quintans, C., Rakotozafindrabe, A., Robbe, P., Scandale, W., Schienbein, I., Seixas, J., Shao, H. S., Signori, A., Topilskaya, N., Uras, A., Van Hulse, C., Wagner, J., Yamanaka, N., Yang, Z., and Zelenski, A.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
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. pp, pd and pA collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 115 GeV and Pbp and PbA collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 72 GeV can be studied with high precision and modern detection techniques over a broad rapidity range. Using the LHCb or the ALICE detector in a fixed-target mode offers unprecedented possibilities to access heavy-flavour production in a new energy domain, half way between the SPS and the nominal RHIC energy. In this contribution, a review of projection studies for quarkonium and open charm and beauty production with both detector set-ups used with various nuclear targets and the LHC lead beams is presented., Comment: Hard Probes 2020 proceedings
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- 2021