Review Article

Quarkonium Production and Proposal of the New Experiments on Fixed Target at the LHC

Table 1

Luminosity, cross sections (), and counting rates.

System, TeV, μb, μb 
()
, %IB , μb, cm−2s−1Rate, h−1

pp 1454.1 54.1 4.7 0.1503 ⋅ 10301620
ppRHIC 0.200 2.7 2.7 3.6 0.00571 ⋅ 1031 205
pPbNA50 0.0274 0.19 25.714.0 0.2127 ⋅ 1029 535
pPbfixed 0.1146 0.65 80.2 6.0 0.3103360
pPbfixed 0.0718 0.55 74.6 8.0 0.3493780
PbPbfixed 0.0718 0.5511970 8.042.9 292

pPbfixed, 500 μ wire, 3.1 ⋅ 109 protons/s.
PbPbfixed, 500 μ wire, 1.4 ⋅ 106 ions/s.