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hep-ex2024

Neutrino Rate Predictions for FASER

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, John Anders +97

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 FAS…

hep-ex2021

First neutrino interaction candidates at the LHC

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Yoav Afik +73

FASER at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to directly detect collider neutrinos for the first time and study their cross sections at TeV energies, where no such…

physics.ins-det2020

Technical Proposal: FASERnu

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Marco Andreini +69

FASERnu is a proposed small and inexpensive emulsion detector designed to detect collider neutrinos for the first time and study their properties. FASERnu will be located directly…

physics.ins-det2025

Reconstruction and Performance Evaluation of FASER's Emulsion Detector at the LHC

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +121

This paper presents the reconstruction and performance evaluation of the FASER emulsion detector, which aims to measure interactions from neutrinos produced in the forward dire…

hep-ex2026

Towards foundation-style models for energy-frontier heterogeneous neutrino detectors via self-supervised pre-training

Saúl Alonso-Monsalve, Fabio Cufino, Umut Kose +2

Accelerator-based neutrino physics is entering an energy-frontier regime in which interactions reach the TeV scale and produce exceptionally dense, overlapping detector signatures.…

physics.ins-det2013

NESSiE: The Experimental Sterile Neutrino Search in Short-Base-Line at CERN

Umut Kose

Several different experimental results are indicating the existence of anomalies in the neutrino sector. Models beyond the standard model have been developed to explain these resul…

hep-ex2024

Shining Light on the Dark Sector: Search for Axion-like Particles and Other New Physics in Photonic Final States with FASER

FASER collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +106

The first FASER search for a light, long-lived particle decaying into a pair of photons is reported. The search uses LHC proton-proton collision data at

physics.ins-det2022

The FASER Detector

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Elham Amin Mansour +94

FASER, the ForwArd Search ExpeRiment, is an experiment dedicated to searching for light, extremely weakly-interacting particles at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Such particle…

hep-ex2023

First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, John Anders +85

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

hep-ex2025

Prospects and Opportunities with an upgraded FASER Neutrino Detector during the HL-LHC era: Input to the EPPSU

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +115

The FASER experiment at CERN has opened a new window in collider neutrino physics by detecting TeV-energy neutrinos produced in the forward direction at the LHC. Building on this s…

hep-ex2025

First Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Interaction Cross Section and Flux as a Function of Energy at the LHC with FASER

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +107

This letter presents the measurement of the energy-dependent neutrino-nucleon cross section in tungsten and the differential flux of muon neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. The analysis…

physics.ins-det2025

Beam test results of a fully 3D-printed plastic scintillator particle detector prototype

Botao Li, Tim Weber, Umut Kose +14

Plastic scintillators are widely used for the detection of elementary particles, and 3D reconstruction of particle tracks is achieved by segmenting the detector into 3D granular st…

hep-ex2019

Future Opportunities in Accelerator-based Neutrino Physics

Andrea Dell'Acqua, Antoni Aduszkiewicz, Markus Ahlers +140

This document summarizes the conclusions of the Neutrino Town Meeting held at CERN in October 2018 to review the neutrino field at large with the aim of defining a strategy for acc…

hep-ph2022

Tau Neutrinos in the Next Decade: from GeV to EeV

Roshan Mammen Abraham, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Carlos A. Argüelles +63

Tau neutrinos are the least studied particle in the Standard Model. This whitepaper discusses the current and expected upcoming status of tau neutrino physics with attention to the…

hep-ex2026

Optimization of muon suppression using sweeper magnets for the Forward Physics Facility at the HL-LHC

Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Jeremy Atkinson +13

The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will enable high-statistics measurements of TeV-scale neutrinos, but the intense flux of forward muons poses…

hep-ex2025

Letter of Intent: The Forward Physics Facility

Luis A. Anchordoqui, John K. Anders, Akitaka Ariga +111

The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a proposed extension of the HL-LHC program designed to exploit the unique scientific opportunities offered by the intense flux of high energy…

hep-ex2011

Search for ν_μ-> ν_τoscillations in appearance mode in the OPERA experiment

Umut Kose

The OPERA experiment in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the muon…

hep-ex2026

Momentum Measurement of Charged Particles in FASER's Emulsion Detector at the LHC

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +132

We present a momentum measurement method based on multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) in the FASER emulsion detector. The measurement of charged-particle momenta is essential for…

hep-ex2019

DsTau: Study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS

Shigeki Aoki, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga +27

In the DsTau experiment at the CERN SPS, an independent and direct way to measure tau neutrino production following high energy proton interactions was proposed. As the main source…

physics.ins-det2024

Development of proton beam irradiation system for the NA65/DsTau experiment

Shigeki Aoki, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga +23

Tau neutrino is the least studied lepton of the Standard Model (SM). The NA65/DsTau experiment targets to investigate , the parent particle of the , using the nuclear e…

physics.ins-det2023

Demonstration of particle tracking with scintillating fibres read out by a SPAD array sensor and application as a neutrino active target

Matthew Franks, Till Dieminger, Kodai Kaneyasu +9

Scintillating fibre detectors combine sub-mm resolution particle tracking, precise measurements of the particle stopping power and sub-ns time resolution. Typically, fibres are rea…

physics.ins-det2025

A 3D segmented Water-based Liquid Scintillator for high-precision detection of neutrinos in water

Botao Li, Daria Borodulina, Davide Sgalaberna +8

Precision detection of neutrino-nucleus interactions in water with the complete detection of the final state, including leptons and hadrons, is challenging due to water being a non…

physics.ins-det2022

The trigger and data acquisition system of the FASER experiment

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Elham Amin Mansour +81

The FASER experiment is a new small and inexpensive experiment that is placed 480 meters downstream of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC. FASER is designed to capture decays of…

physics.ins-det2022

The tracking detector of the FASER experiment

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Claire Antel +77

FASER is a new experiment designed to search for new light weakly-interacting long-lived particles (LLPs) and study high-energy neutrino interactions in the very forward region of…

hep-ex2024

First Measurement of the and Interaction Cross Sections at the LHC with FASER's Emulsion Detector

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, John Anders +102

This paper presents the first results of the study of high-energy electron and muon neutrino charged-current interactions in the FASER emulsion/tungsten detector of the FASER e…

physics.ins-det2024

Advances in Additive Manufacturing of 3D-segmented Plastic Scintillator Detectors for Particle Tracking and Calorimetry

Umut Kose

Plastic scintillator detectors with three-dimensional granularity and sub-nanosecond time resolution offer simultaneous particle tracking, identification, and calorimetry. However,…

physics.ins-det2019

Research and Development for Near Detector Systems Towards Long Term Evolution of Ultra-precise Long-baseline Neutrino Experiments

Aysel Kayis Topaksu, Edward Blucher, Bernard Andrieu +108

With the discovery of non-zero value of mixing angle, the next generation of long-baseline neutrino (LBN) experiments offers the possibility of obtaining statistically si…

physics.ins-det2024

Additive manufacturing of a 3D-segmented plastic scintillator detector for tracking and calorimetry of elementary particles

Tim Weber, Andrey Boyarintsev, Umut Kose +13

Plastic-scintillator detectors are devices used for the detection of elementary particles. They provide good particle identification with excellent time resolution, whilst being in…

hep-ex2026

Electromagnetic Shower Reconstruction and Identification in FASER's Emulsion Detector for LHC Forward Neutrino Measurements

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +132

We present methods for electromagnetic shower reconstruction and identification in the FASERnu emulsion detector using 100 GeV and 200 GeV electron test-beam data from the CERN SPS…

hep-ex2013

Study of Neutrino Oscillations in the OPERA Experiment

Umut Kose

The OPERA experiment has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the channel, through the detection of th…

hep-ex2025

Latest neutrino results from the FASER experiment and their implications for forward hadron production

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +117

The muon puzzle -- an excess of muons relative to simulation predictions in ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray air showers -- has been reported by many experiments. This suggests that fo…