# Future heavy-ion facilities: FCC-AA

## TL;DR

The paper discusses the potential of the Future Circular Collider to conduct high-energy heavy-ion collisions, opening new physics opportunities at unprecedented energies and luminosities.

## Contribution

It introduces the concept and projected capabilities of FCC for heavy-ion physics, highlighting the unique opportunities at the energy frontier.

## Key findings

- FCC can achieve Pb-Pb collisions at 39 TeV per nucleon-nucleon.
- FCC can achieve p-Pb collisions at 63 TeV per nucleon-nucleon.
- Projected luminosities enable extensive physics studies.

## Abstract

The operation of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) with heavy ions would provide Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at sqrt{s_NN}= 39 and 63 TeV, respectively, per nucleon-nucleon collision, with projected per-month integrated luminosities of up to 110/nb and 29/pb, respectively. This document outlines the unique and broad physics opportunities with heavy ions at the energy frontier opened by FCC.