PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 379 - The 18th International Workshop on Polarized Sources, Targets, and Polarimetry (PSTP2019) - Polarized Gas Targets
LHCspin: a polarized internal target for the LHC
P. Lenisa*, E. Steffens, V. Carassiti, G. Ciullo, P. Di Nezza, L.L. Pappalardo and A.A. Vasilyev
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Published on: September 23, 2020
Abstract
The LHCspin project aims to bring both unpolarized and polarized physics at the LHC through the installation of a gaseous fixed target at the upstream end of the LHCb detector. The forward geometry of the LHCb spectrometer (2 < eta < 5) is perfectly suited for the reconstruction of particles produced in fixed-target collisions. The fixed-target configuration, with center-of-mass energies ranging from sqrt(s) = 72 GeV in collisions with Pb beams to
sqrt(s) = 115 GeV in pp interactions, allows to cover a wide backward center-of-mass rapidity region, corresponding to the poorly explored high x-Bjorken and high x-Feynman regimes. The use of transversely polarized H and
D targets will allow to study the quarks TMDs in p-p collisions at unique kinematic conditions. Furthermore, being LHCb specifically designed for heavy-flavor physics, final states with c- or b-quarks (e.g. inclusive quarkonia production) will be efficiently reconstructed, thus providing, among other fundamental measurememnts, access to the so-far unknown gluons TMDs. The contribution focuses on the design considerations of the polarized internal target and on a discussion of possible critical machine issues.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.379.0025
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