24–28 Oct 2022
University of Santiago de Compostela
Europe/Madrid timezone

LHCb highlights in heavy ion collisions

26 Oct 2022, 17:50
20m
Classroom 1, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Classroom 1, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación

University of Santiago de Compostela

Campus Norte, Av. de Castelao, s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Oral Contribution P5 Heavy Ion Collisions and QCD Phases P5 Heavy Ion Collisions and QCD Phases

Speaker

Samuel Belin (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Description

Studies of heavy ion collisions shed light on dense QCD systems and non-perturbative effects such as gluon saturation in nuclei, deconfinement, and hadronization mechanism in the medium. The LHCb collaboration has been developing a full heavy ion program studying dense QCD medium that utilizes both fixed-target and beam-beam collisions. Thanks to the forward instrumentation of the LHCb spectrometer, data taken with both collision configurations can probe unique kinematic regions at small and large Bjorken-x in detail. The precise vertexing and full particle identification allow a wide variety of hadron species to be reconstructed down to very low transverse momentum. The fixed-target configuration covers an unexplored energy range that lies between the SPS and the top RHIC energy.

We present new LHCb results from both beam-beam and fixed-target collisions, including nuclear modification at low Bjorken-x, heavy quark hadronization in small and large systems, charm production in fixed-target collisions, and charmonium photoproduction in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions.

Primary author

Samuel Belin (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

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