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First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC

ContributorsFASER Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 131, no. 3
Publication date2023
First online date2023-07-19
Abstract

We report the first direct observation of neutrino interactions at a particle collider experiment. Neutrino candidate events are identified in a 13.6 TeV center-of-mass energy pp collision dataset of 35.4  fb^{-1} using the active electronic components of the FASER detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The candidates are required to have a track propagating through the entire length of the FASER detector and be consistent with a muon neutrino charged-current interaction. We infer 153_{-13}^{+12} neutrino interactions with a significance of 16 standard deviations above the background-only hypothesis. These events are consistent with the characteristics expected from neutrino interactions in terms of secondary particle production and spatial distribution, and they imply the observation of both neutrinos and anti-neutrinos with an incident neutrino energy of significantly above 200 GeV.

Keywords
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Neutrino: interaction
  • P p: scattering
  • Forward spectrometer
  • Neutrino: detector
  • Nuclear emulsion
  • Neutrino: energy
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Neutrino/mu: particle identification
  • Spatial distribution
  • Tracks
  • Antineutrino
  • Muon: background
  • Charged current
  • Experimental results
  • 13600 GeV-cms
Funding
  • European Commission - Studying Neutrinos at the High Energy Frontier [101002690]
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Quantum Universe [390833306]
  • National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research: FASER and FASERnu at the Large Hadron Collider [2111427]
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FASER Collaboration. First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC. In: Physical review letters, 2023, vol. 131, n° 3. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.031801
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