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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Using the unprecedented energies of the LHC beams, such an experiment, tentatively named AFTER for “A Fixed-Target ExperRiment”, gives access to new domains of particle and nuclear physics complementing that of collider experiments, in particular that of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the projects of Electron-ion colliders (EIC). We have already evaluated that the instantaneous luminosity achievable with AFTER using typical targets would surpass that of RHIC by more than 3 orders of magnitude. As simple as it seems, the multi-TeV LHC beams will also allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever performed. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Using the unprecedented energies of the LHC beams, such an experiment, tentatively named AFTER for “A Fixed-Target ExperRiment”, gives access to new domains of particle and nuclear physics complementing that of collider experiments, in particular that of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the projects of Electron-ion colliders (EIC). We have already evaluated that the instantaneous luminosity achievable with AFTER using typical targets would surpass that of RHIC by more than 3 orders of magnitude <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(both in the extracted-beam and internal-gas-target modes)</ins>. As simple as it seems, the multi-TeV LHC beams will also allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever performed. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Using the unprecedented energies of the LHC beams, such an experiment, tentatively named AFTER for “A Fixed-Target ExperRiment”, gives access to new domains of particle and nuclear physics complementing that of collider experiments, in particular that of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the projects of Electron-ion colliders (EIC). We have already evaluated that the instantaneous luminosity achievable with AFTER using typical targets would surpass that of RHIC by more than 3 orders of magnitude. As simple as it seems, the multi-TeV LHC beams will also allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever performed. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The multi-TeV energy of the LHC beams would make this fixed-target physics program unique. As simple as it seems, the high energy LHC beams will allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever performed. We believe that such a facility will be of much interest to a wide range of hadron, nuclear and particle physicists. The collision of the high energy LHC beams with fixed targets, including polarized and nuclei targets will greatly expand the range of fundamental physics phenomena accessible at CERN. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The multi-TeV energy of the LHC beams would make this fixed-target physics program unique. As simple as it seems, the high energy LHC beams will allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever performed. We believe that such a facility will be of much interest to a wide range of hadron, nuclear and particle physicists. The collision of the high energy LHC beams with fixed targets, including polarized and nuclei targets will greatly expand the range of fundamental physics phenomena accessible at CERN. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The fixed-target mode will permit us to carry out unprecedented precision measurements of hard QCD processes. In particular, our aim is to study:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The fixed-target mode will permit us to carry out unprecedented precision measurements of hard QCD processes. In particular, our aim is to study:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The multi-TeV energy of the LHC beams would make this fixed-target physics program unique. As simple as it seems, the high energy LHC beams will allow for the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever performed. We believe that such a facility will be of much interest to a wide range of hadron, nuclear and particle physicists. The collision of the high energy LHC beams with fixed targets, including polarized and nuclei targets will greatly expand the range of fundamental physics phenomena accessible at CERN. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The fixed-target mode will permit us to carry out unprecedented precision measurements of hard QCD processes. In particular, our aim is to study:</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rare configurations of the proton wave function which contain gluon or heavy-quarks with high momentum fraction ;</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*the gluon content in the deuteron and neutron in a wide momentum-fraction range;</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*the correlation between the proton spin and the gluon angular momentum through the Sivers effect and novel spin correlations;</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*the production of W and Z bosons in their threshold domain;</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*the melting of excited heavy-quark bound states in the deconfined QCD phase in heavy-ion collisions;</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*the nucleus structure function for momentum fractions close to and above unity;</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*the deconfinement dynamics in the target-rest frame;</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*ultra-peripheral collisions in a fixed-target mode.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Media</del>:<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">AFTER</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pdf]]</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Compared to the RHIC experiments, which benefit from similar center-of-mass energies, our proposal will bear upon a huge luminosity –typical of a fixed-target set-up– and upon a complete versatility of target species. Compared to Electron-ion collider projects, our proposal will certainly be highly competitive in terms of cost and it will be of complementary design, with a specific focus on the study of parton content at large momentum fractions – in particular that in terms of gluons.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">High-energy fixed-target experiments have already been discussed in the 90's, both at the European LHC and the American SSC. The main differences between our proposal and earlier ones are </ins>:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*the fact that the LHC is now built and runs –very well indeed–, </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*bent-crystal beam-extraction techniques have now been successfully tested at the SPS and the Tevatron up to nearly 1 TeV and they will be tested on the LHC beams, </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*a number of modern detection techniques have been developed in the meantime –in particular, ultra-granular detectors– and, finally, </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">our proposal is, in essence, a multi-purpose experiment, not only focusing on one specific aspect of particle physics, as it was the case for the LHB project, for instance</ins>. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The LHC accelerates protons </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lead nuclei to multi-TeV energies. These high intensity beams, which have unprecedented energy up to 7 TeV, could be extracted from the circulating collider beams </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">brought into collision with fixed targets. The principal goal of this proposal is </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">form a </del>new <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">collaboration of high energy particle experimentalists, accelerator physicists and theorists who will explore the </del>physics opportunities <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and feasibility of extracting the 7 TeV LHC proton and 2</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">75 TeV lead beams to provide a viable high-energy fixed-target experimental program at CERN.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">We believe it is well worth exploring this option </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bringing our nuclear </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">particle physicist colleagues' attention </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">all these </ins>new physics opportunities. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">To do so</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">we plan </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">work </ins>out <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the detail </ins>of the physics <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">case </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">adequacy </ins>with the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">current experimental possibilities –and limitations– </ins>, </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The collision of the high energy LHC beams with fixed targets</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">including polarized and nuclei targets will greatly expand the range of fundamental physics phenomena accessible at CERN. The fixed-target mode will allow an intensive study of rare processes, novel spin-correlations, high xF dynamics, diffractive physics, nuclear phenomena as well as the novel spectroscopy of hadrons carrying multiple heavy quarks. The extraordinary energy of the LHC beams would make this fixed-target physics program unique. We believe that such a facility will be of much interest to a wide range of hadron, nuclear and particle physicists.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">develop </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first robust –but ambitious– design </ins>of the experiment and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">its assembly </ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">compliant </ins>to the physics <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">case</ins>, and </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">advertise our project all over </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">world</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">physics community </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">create </ins>an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">experimental collaboration large enough </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">make </ins>this <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">project </ins>viable and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fruitful for the years to come</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The scope of the physics program at such a fixed-target facility is extraordinary. A major goal of this proposal will be </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">map </del>out <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">many </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">possible </del>physics <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">avenues. Here are a few examples:</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1)The collision of the LHC beams with polarized fixed targets will allow the investigation of novel correlations of produced hadrons with the target spin – dynamics beyond the usual domain of perturbative QCD (pQCD). Present data indicates that these correlations are much larger than expected from pQCD.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2)Fixed-target experiment are particularly advantageous for studying rare configurations of the proton wavefunction which contain heavy quarks with high momentum fractions. The D0 experiment at the Tevatron has reported a strong excess of events of photons and charm quark jets at high transverse momentum, signaling that the charm quark distribution </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the proton has been significantly underestimated at high momentum fraction. This is consistent </del>with <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> large range of fixed target and ISR experiments which report </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">production of hadrons with heavy quarks at high momentum. In fact</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the SELEX fixed-target experiment at FermiLab has shown that one can produce baryons with two charmed quarks at very high momentum. One thus expects that the LHC beams colliding on fixed targets can be used </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">discover </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">large array </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hadrons with heavy charm and bottom quarks – even </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ω(bbb), a baryon with three bottom quarks, the heaviest hadron of the Standard Model.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3)One can also study the production of the W and Z bosons in their threshold domain. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4)The use of nuclear targets provides a new window on nuclear phenomena, such as the study of the quark-gluon plasma in the target rest frame. Nuclear targets also allow the exploration of a wide range of novel nuclear physics such as hidden-color configurations of the nuclear wavefunction and high momentum quarks and gluons in the nucleus, far beyond the conventional Fermi momentum domain. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5)The anomalous factorization-breaking nuclear target dependence of J/psi production at high xF observed at Fermilab, the breakdown of the pQCD Lam Tung relation observed by NA10 in Drell-Yan reactions at CERN, the onset of longitudinal polarization of the virtual photon in Drell-Yan reactions at high xF observed by the Chicago Princeton </del>experiment <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">at FermiLab are just a few examples of unexpected </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">not well-understood phenomena seen in past fixed-target experiments. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6)RHIC experiments have observed a remarkable phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions called the``baryon anomaly" -- the baryon to meson ratio increases at high transverse momentum in central collisions where the nuclei have maximal overlap. This phenomenon is opposite to expectations that baryons should be more absorbed in the nuclear medium than mesons; it could point to a new QCD mechanism where color-transparent hadrons are </del> <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produced directly from the hard quark and gluon subprocess rather than jet fragmentation.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">7)Nuclear shadowing and antishadowing have novel features which can be probed at the LHC fixed-target experiments. One can also study diffractive dynamics, where the target or beam hadron remains intact even in extraordinarily disruptive reactions. The E791 diffractive dijet fixed target experiment at Fermilab has shown how one can measure fundamental features of hadronic light-front wavefunctions as well as demonstrate QCD color transparency of high transverse momentum reactions. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A central aim of this proposal will thus be </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">explore these and other new physics opportunities at the extraordinary laboratory energies which would be accessible using the LHC beams in a fixed-target mode.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In addition to outlining </del>the physics <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">opportunities</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the collaboration will also look into prospective designs of experimental facilities capable of making measurements over the full range of fixed-target kinematics, including the target </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">beam rapidity domains. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The target-rapidity domain is challenging experimentally, but it is particularly interesting for ion-nucleus collisions since it cannot be accessed in ion-ion colliders and may thus reveal new insights into the formation of the quark-gluon plasma. In addition, detectors need </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">be designed to detect new baryons containing heavy quarks appearing in </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">target</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rapidity domain. The aim is </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">be able to detect single and double diffractive reactions where the target proton or nucleus remains intact in order to access the gluon-rich phenomenology of diffractive processes. A forward detector with high resolution could also be designed to measure the nuclear diffractive process p A → Jet Jet Jet A' where a proton diffracts to three quark jets leaving the nucleus in the target intact. As outlined by Frankfurt, Miller and Strikman, such </del>an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">experiment can measure the three-quark wavefunction of the proton as well as test color transparency. The fixed target facility could also be designed </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provide high energy secondary hadron beams. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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