https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429608001
ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal): Physics program and performance
1 University of California, Berkeley, CA, US
2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, US
* e-mail: florian.jonas@cern.ch
Published online: 26 June 2024
This contribution outlines the physics program and performance of the Forward Calorimeter (FoCal), which is a planned new detector subsystem for the ALICE experiment in Run 4. The forward pseudorapidity coverage of 3.2 < η < 5.8 allows to study the gluon density in hadronic matter down to x ∼ 10−6 and enables the search for gluon saturation at the LHC.
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