Speaker
Antonio Uras
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Description
The use of the lead LHC beam in the fixed-target mode allows one to study heavy-flavour production in a new energy domain, half way between SPS and RHIC. We will report on the opportunities for quarkonium and open charm/beauty production in Pb$A$ collisions including the prospects to study the relative suppression of $\Upsilon(nS)$ and new charmonium observables such as the $\chi_c$ and associated production. Both set-up using the ALICE and LHCb detectors will be discussed.
