Speaker
Prof.
Enrico Scomparin
(INFN Sezione di Torino - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy)
Description
Heavy quark production represents one of the main tools for the QGP characterization, as shown by the vast amount of results obtained in nuclear collisions at collider energies. At fixed-target energies, these measurements become more difficult because of the vanishing production cross sections, and for the moment only charmonium results at top SPS energy (sqrt(s_NN)=17 GeV) are available. A new experiment at the CERN SPS is being proposed, to carry out measurements down to sqrt(s_NN)~6 GeV. In this talk I will review the physics topics that can be addressed in this energy domain and show the results of the corresponding physics performance studies. The status of advance of the experiment preparation will also be briefly described.
