High-density gas target at the LHCb experiment
Garcia OB, Bregliozzi G, Calegari D, Carassiti V, Ciullo G, Coco V, Collins P, Pinto PC, De Angelis C, Di Nezza P, Dumps R, Ferro-Luzzi M, Fleuret F, Graziani G, Kotriakhova S, Lenisa P, Lu Q, Lucarelli C, Maurice E, Mariani S, Mattioli K, Milovanovic M, Pappalardo LL, Parragh DM, Piccoli A, Sainvitu P, Salvant B, Sanders F, Santimaria M, Sestak J, Squerzanti S, Steffens E, Tagliente G, Vollenberg W, Vollinger C (2024)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2024
Journal
Book Volume: 27
Article Number: 111001
Journal Issue: 11
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.27.111001
Abstract
The recently installed internal gas target at LHCb presents exceptional opportunities for an extensive physics program for heavy-ion, hadron, spin, and astroparticle physics. A storage cell placed in the LHC primary vacuum, an advanced Gas Feed System, the availability of multi-TeV proton and ion beams, and the recent upgrade of the LHCb detector make this project unique worldwide. In this paper, we outline the main components of the system, the physics prospects it offers, and the hardware challenges encountered during its implementation. The commissioning phase has yielded promising results, demonstrating that fixed-target collisions can occur concurrently with the collider mode without compromising efficient data acquisition and high-quality reconstruction of beam-gas and beam-beam interactions.
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Involved external institutions
Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung (CERN)
Switzerland (CH)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Italy (IT)
Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR)
France (FR)
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Italy (IT)
FOM Foundation
Netherlands (NL)
Switzerland (CH)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Italy (IT)
Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR)
France (FR)
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Italy (IT)
FOM Foundation
Netherlands (NL)
How to cite
APA:
Garcia, O.B., Bregliozzi, G., Calegari, D., Carassiti, V., Ciullo, G., Coco, V.,... Vollinger, C. (2024). High-density gas target at the LHCb experiment. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 27(11). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.27.111001
MLA:
Garcia, O. Boente, et al. "High-density gas target at the LHCb experiment." Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 27.11 (2024).
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