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Neutrino rate predictions for FASER

ContributorsFASER Collaboration
Published inPhysical review. D., vol. 110, no. 1, 012009
Publication date2024
First online date2024-07-12
Abstract

The Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recently directly detected the first collider neutrinos. Neutrinos play an important role in all FASER analyses, either as signal or background, and it is therefore essential to understand the neutrino event rates. In this study, we update previous simulations and present prescriptions for theoretical predictions of neutrino fluxes and cross sections, together with their associated uncertainties. With these results, we discuss the potential for possible measurements that could be carried out in the coming years with the FASER neutrino data to be collected in LHC Run 3 and Run 4.

Keywords
  • Neutrino: production
  • Forward production
  • Neutrino: energy spectrum
  • Neutrino: flavor
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • CERN Lab
  • FRASER
  • Forward spectrometer
  • Neutrino: detector
  • Neutrino: flux: calculated
  • Differential cross section: calculated
  • Energy dependence
  • Background
  • Numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
Funding
  • Heising-Simons Foundation [2018-1135]
  • Simons Foundation [623683]
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP19H01909]
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [05H20PDRC1]
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [EXC 2121]
  • Royal Society [URF\R1\201519]
  • Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/ T505870/1]
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research: FASER and FASERnu at the Large Hadron Collider [2111427]
  • European Commission - Studying Neutrinos at the High Energy Frontier [101002690]
Citation (ISO format)
FASER Collaboration. Neutrino rate predictions for FASER. In: Physical review. D., 2024, vol. 110, n° 1, p. 012009. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.110.012009
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.012009
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