Speaker
Nestor Armesto Perez
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
Description
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is the project for an electron and hadron collider in a new 80-100
km tunnel in the Geneva area. In hadron mode, a centre-of-mass energy of order 100 TeV would be achieved in pp collisions. A design study is under development to be concluded in 2018, with the target start of operation of the machine in 2035-40.
The FCC could operate with heavy ions, providing Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 39 and 63 TeV, respectively, with monthly integrated luminosities of order 5-10/nb. We will present the updated studies on the physics opportunities with heavy ions at the FCC, emphasising the new developments since last Quark Matter, on four topics: bulk observables with focus on the new degrees of freedom (charm) that can be active; hard probes that are produced more abundantly than at the LHC and offer possibilities for new kinds of studies through boosted heavy objects (such as top quarks) or for quarkonia; small-x studies in p-Pb with the large enlargement of the kinematic x-Q^2 plane that the huge collision energy implies; and ultra-peripheral collisions where small-x and electro-weak studies can be performed. Implications on other fields like the physics of very high-energy cosmic rays, will also be presented.
Author
Nestor Armesto Perez
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
Co-authors
Andrea Dainese
(INFN - Padova (IT))
Christof Roland
(Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
David d'Enterria
(CERN)
Marco Van Leeuwen
(Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
Silvia Masciocchi
(GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
Urs Wiedemann
(CERN)
