Speaker
Description
FASER$\nu$ is a dedicated neutrino detector in the FASER experiment to study high-energy neutrinos from the LHC, which got approved by CERN in December 2019. A 1.2-tonnes emulsion-based detector will be located at 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction point. The unique experimental setup allows measuring three-flavor neutrino cross sections at the currently uncharted energy range between 350 GeV and 6 TeV. Furthermore, the channels associated with heavy quark (charm and beauty) production will be studied. FASER$\nu$ will take data in Run 3 of LHC operation (2021-2024), which would yield roughly 1300 $\nu_e$, 20000 $\nu_{\mu}$, and 20 $\nu_{\tau}$ interacting in the detector. The physics motivation, overview of the FASER$\nu$ project and the candidate neutrino events from the 30 kg neutrino detector in the 2018 pilot run (correcting 12.5 $fb^{-1}$ of data) will be reported.
Mini-abstract
High energy neutrino experiment at the LHC. First neutrino interaction candidates from the 2018 run.
| Experiment/Collaboration | FASER Collaboration |
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