Publication Date:
2015-10-05
Description:
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-, using conventional detection techniques. At the nominal LHC energies, quarkonia can be studied in detail in , , and collisions at GeV and in Pb + and Pb + collisions at GeV with luminosities roughly equivalent to that of the collider mode that is up to 20 fb−1 yr−1 in and collisions, up to 0.6 fb−1 yr−1 in collisions, and up to 10 nb−1 yr−1 in Pb + collisions. In this paper, we assess the feasibility of such studies by performing fast simulations using the performance of a LHCb-like detector.
Print ISSN:
1687-7357
Electronic ISSN:
1687-7365
Topics:
Physics