# Quark Matter 2018

May 13 – 19, 2018
Venice, Italy
Europe/Zurich timezone
The organisers warmly thank all participants for such a lively QM2018! See you in China in 2019!

## A fixed-target programme at the LHC for heavy-ion, hadron, spin and astroparticle physics: AFTER@LHC

May 16, 2018, 4:00 PM
20m
Sala Casinò, 1st Floor (Palazzo del Casinò)

### Sala Casinò, 1st Floor

#### Palazzo del Casinò

Parallel Talk Future facilities, upgrades and instrumentation

Daniel Kikola

### Description

By splitting the multi-TeV LHC proton and lead beams with a bent crystal or by using an internal gas target, the LHC complex allows one to perform the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever and to study with high precision pp, pd and pA collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{NN}$=115 GeV and Pbp and PbA collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{NN}$=72 GeV. A broad programme, covering the large-x frontier for particle and astroparticle physics, spin and heavy-ion physics will greatly complement collider experiments, in particular those of RHIC and the EIC project. We will present our latest feasibility studies for Drell-Yan, quarkonia, heavy-flavoured as well as light flavoured hadrons using LHCb and ALICE detectors. These can be studied with different species in a wide rapidity range providing important information concerning quark and gluon (n)pdf at large x, cold nuclear matter effects, quarkonium formation time in the medium, expected sequential suppression in QGP and final state interaction effects.

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