Research Article

Feasibility Studies for Quarkonium Production at a Fixed-Target Experiment Using the LHC Proton and Lead Beams (AFTER@LHC)

Table 2

Total cross section for different processes in collisions at = 115 GeV and number of simulated events .

(mb)

/ 1.30 10−3 1.47 106
() 1.61 10−4 1.12 106
() 4.30 10−7 1.46 106
() 1.22 10−7 1.49 106
() 5.28 10−8 1.48 106
Drell-Yan ( 2.5 GeV/) 2.52 10−6 4.3 105
Drell-Yan ( 7 GeV/) 1.49 10−7 2.0 106
2.29 10−1 81.5 106
4.86 10−4 () 32.3 106 ()
1.49 10−4 () 85.7 106 ()
Minimum bias 26.68 11.0 108