Publications (31)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Search for ν_μ-> ν_Ïoscillations 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…