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Input to the European Strategy for Particle Physics - 2026 update

1 September 2024 to 1 April 2025
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LHCspin: a Polarized Gas Target for LHC

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Description

The goal of the LHCspin project is to develop innovative solutions for measuring the 3D structure of nucleons in high-energy polarized fixed-target collisions, exploring new processes and new probes in a unique, poorly explored kinematic regime at LHC beam energies.
This ambitious task is being based on the recent experience with the successful installation and exploitation of the SMOG2 unpolarized gas target in front of the LHCb spectrometer. SMOG2 provides an ideal benchmark for studying beam-target dynamics at the LHC and demonstrates the feasibility of simultaneous operation with beam-beam collisions.
With the installation of the proposed polarized target system, LHCb will become the first experiment to simultaneously collect data from unpolarized beam-beam collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=14 TeV and polarized and unpolarized beam-target collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}\sim$100 GeV. LHCspin has the potential to open new frontiers in physics by exploiting the capabilities of the world's most powerful collider and one of the most advanced spectrometers.

Author

Pasquale Di Nezza (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

Co-authors

Prof. -Erhard -Steffens (FAU - Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) Prof. Alessandro Bacchetta Alexander Nass Alexei Prokudin (PSU Berks and Jefferson Lab) Alexey Guskov Andrea Signori (University of Turin and INFN) Andrei Gridin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)) Anna Piccoli (INFN and University of Ferrara, Italy) Aram Kotzinian (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM)) Aram Movsisyan (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM)) Aurore Courtoy (Instituto de Física, UNAM) Dr Bakur Parsamyan (AANL, Turin section of INFN and CERN) Prof. Barbara Pasquini (University of Pavia and INFN-Pavia) Boxing Gou (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Camilla De Angelis (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT)) Carlo Flore (Università di Cagliari & INFN) Charlotte Van Hulse (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)) Chiara Bissolotti (Argonne National Laboratory) Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Torino (IT)) Cristian Pisano (University and INFN Cagliari (Italy)) Cynthia Hadjidakis (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Daniel Pitonyak (Lebanon Valley College) Daniel Sivers (Portland Physics Institute, Portland, OR) Dustin Keller (University of Virginia) Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Università degli Studi di Torino and INFN Torino) Erika De Lucia (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Federica Fabiano (Università e INFN Cagliari (IT)) Prof. Fiorenza Donato (Torino University) Dr Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (UAH Madrid) Francesco Murgia (INFN - Sezione di Cagliari) Frank Rathmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN Trieste) Gary R Goldstein Giulia Bedeschi (INFN and University of Ferrara, Italy) Giulia Manca (Universita` degli studi di Cagliari and INFN, Cagliari, IT) Giuseppe Bozzi (University of Cagliari and INFN, Cagliari) Prof. Giuseppe Ciullo (Università e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) Giuseppe Tagliente (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) Gunar Schnell Hajime Suzuki (Chubu University (JP)) Huey-Wen Lin Igor Denisenko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)) Ishara Fernando (University of Virginia) Jan Matousek (Charles University (CZ)) Jean-Philippe Lansberg (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Jinlong Zhang (Shandong University) Jorg Pretz (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE)) Jose Osvaldo Gonzalez-Hernandez (University of Turin & INFN-Sezione di Torino) Prof. Leonard Gamberg (Penn State University Berks) Liang Sun (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China) Luca Barion (INFN - Ferrara) Luciano Libero Pappalardo (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) Marcello Rotondo (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Marco Maggiora (Universita e INFN Torino (IT)) Marco Mirazita Marco Radici Marco Santimaria (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Prof. Martha Constantinou Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN) Dr Michael Pesek (Charles University (CZ)) Michelle Stancari (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Miguel Echevarria (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) Ming Xiong Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Nenad Bundaleski (FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Norbert Koch (TH Nuremberg, Germany) Norihiro Doshita (Yamagata University (JP)) Orlando Manuel Neves Duarte Teodoro (CEFITEC, Department of Physics, Nova School of Sciences and Technology, Nova University Lisbon) Prof. Paolo Lenisa (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) Pedro Costa Pinto (CERN) Qinghua Xu (Shandong University) Rahul Shankar (University of Ferrara and INFN) Ralf W. Engels Riccardo Longo (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)) Saverio Mariani (CERN) Simonetta Liuti (Virginia University) Stefano Squerzanti (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) Susanna Bertelli (INFN Frascati National Laboratory) Takahiro Iwata (Yamagata University (JP)) Tarek El-Kordy Tatsuro Matsuda (University of Miyazaki(JP)) Umberto D'Alesio (Department of Physics, University of Cagliari) Dr Valerio Bertone (C.E.A. Paris-Saclay) Vendula Benesova (Charles University (CZ)) Vittore Carassiti Volker Hejny Yoshiyuki Miyachi (Yamagata University (JP)) Prof. mariaelena boglione (University of Turin) zhihong ye (Tsingghua University, Beijing)

Presentation materials

LHCspin - ESPP.pdf
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