https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817110001
Physics perspectives with AFTER@LHC (A Fixed Target ExpeRiment at LHC)
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IPNO, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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Dip. di Fisica and INFN Sez. Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, Torino, Italy
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, USA
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LANL, P-25, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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INFN Sez. Pavia, Via Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Dept. de Física de Partículas, USC, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
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LLR, École Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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CHEP, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland
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CPhT, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
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SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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LPSC, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, Tübingen U., Tübingen, Germany
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LIP and IST, Lisbon, Portugal
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Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7589, LPTHE, F-75005 Paris, France CNRS, UMR 7589, LPTHE, F-75005 Paris, France
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Theory Center, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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Physics Institute, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Hoza 69, 00-681, Warsaw, Poland
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Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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IPNL, Université Claude Bernard Lyon-I, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
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Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
* e-mail: massacrier@ipno.in2p3.fr
Published online: 2 February 2018
AFTER@LHC is an ambitious fixed-target project in order to address open questions in the domain of proton and neutron spins, Quark Gluon Plasma and high-x physics, at the highest energy ever reached in the fixed-target mode. Indeed, thanks to the highly energetic 7 TeV proton and 2.76 A.TeV lead LHC beams, center-of-mass energies as large as 
= 115 GeV in pp/pA and 
= 72 GeV in AA can be reached, corresponding to an uncharted energy domain between SPS and RHIC. We report two main ways of performing fixed-target collisions at the LHC, both allowing for the usage of one of the existing LHC experiments. In these proceedings, after discussing the projected luminosities considered for one year of data taking at the LHC, we will present a selection of projections for light and heavy-flavour production.
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