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Motivated by the ion-collision program at the Large Hadron Collider, plans for its high-luminosity upgrade, and on-going discussions for multi-TeV future hadron colliders, we systematically investigate hard-scattering, Standard Model processes in many-TeV ion-ion collisions. We focus on the symmetric beam configurations for Pb-208, Xe-131, C-12, and the proton (for reference), catalog total and fiducial cross sections for dozens of processes, ranging from associated-Higgs and multiboson production to associated-top pair production, at next-to-leading order in QCD for nucleon-nucleon collision energies from $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 1$ to 100 TeV. We report on the emergence of trends and the reliability of extrapolating cross sections across different nuclei.
arXiv:2405.19399
