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20202026
most citedThe Forward Physics Facility: Sites, Experiments, and Physics Potential

181 citations · 317 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

hep-ph2026

Minimal cascade decay of the top quark through a new scalar

Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Max H. Fieg, Alessandro Russo

We explore a possible decay of the top quark into a new scalar plus a charm quark. The decay is mediated by a dimension-5 operator that may be generated by the exchange of a…

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-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-ph2026

The X17 with Chiral Couplings

Max H. Fieg, Toni Mäkelä, Tim M. P. Tait +1

In recent years, the ATOMKI collaboration has performed a series of measurements of excited nuclei, observing a resonant excess of electron-positron pairs at large opening angles c…

hep-ph2025

Octet scalars shaping LHC distributions in 4-jet final states

Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Max H. Fieg

We study properties of a hypothetical scalar particle, , which is a color octet and an electroweak singlet. At hadron colliders, is pair produced through its QCD coupling to…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 2 cited

MuCol Milestone Report No. 7: Consolidated Parameters

Rebecca Taylor, Antoine Chancé, Dario Augusto Giove +459

This document is comprised of a collection of consolidated parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. These consolidated parameters follow on from the October 2024 Prelimin…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Road map for the tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data

Johannes Albrecht, Julia Becker Tjus, Noah Behling +52

In high-energy and astroparticle physics, event generators play an essential role, even in the simplest data analyses. As analysis techniques become more sophisticated, e.g. based…

hep-ex2025★ 2 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

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 direc…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

The Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +450

Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. A Muon Collider enables direct access to the underlying simplicity of the…

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-ph2025★ 5 cited

The LHC as a TeV Muon Beam Dump: Muonphilic Scalars at FASER

Roshan Mammen Abraham, Max Fieg

The FASER experiment was designed to study long-lived dark sector particles and neutrinos traveling in the forward direction at the LHC. Neutrinos are predominantly produced from m…

hep-ex2025★ 4 cited

Detecting LHC Neutrinos at Surface Level

Akitaka Ariga, Steven Barwick, Jamie Boyd +5

The first direct detection of neutrinos at the LHC not only marks the beginning of a novel collider neutrino program at CERN but also motivates considering additional neutrino dete…

hep-ex2024★ 18 cited

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.acc-ph2024

MuCol Milestone Report No. 5: Preliminary Parameters

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +391

This document is comprised of a collection of updated preliminary parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. The updated preliminary parameters follow on from the October 2…

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 …

hep-ph2024

FPF@FCC: Neutrino, QCD, and BSM Physics Opportunities with Far-Forward Experiments at a 100 TeV Proton Collider

Roshan Mammen Abraham, Jyotismita Adhikary, Jonathan L. Feng +7

Proton-proton collisions at energy-frontier facilities produce an intense flux of high-energy light particles, including neutrinos, in the forward direction. At the LHC, these part…

physics.acc-ph2024

Interim report for the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC)

C. Accettura, S. Adrian, R. Agarwal +383

The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) [1] was established in 2020 following the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) and the implemen…

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-ph2023

New Physics in Single Resonant Top Quarks

Shelley Tong, James Corcoran, Max Fieg +2

Searches for new physics in the top quark sector are of great theoretical interest, yet some powerful avenues for discovery remain unexplored. We characterize the expected statisti…

hep-ph2023

Tuning Pythia for Forward Physics Experiments

Max Fieg, Felix Kling, Holger Schulz +1

Event generators like Pythia play an important role in physics studies at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While they make accurate predictions in the central region, i.e. at pseud…

hep-ph2023

The LHC as a Neutrino-Ion Collider

Juan M. Cruz-Martinez, Max Fieg, Tommaso Giani +4

Proton-proton collisions at the LHC generate a high-intensity collimated beam of neutrinos in the forward (beam) direction, characterised by energies of up to several TeV. The rece…

hep-ph2023★ 17 cited

Extending the Discovery Potential for Inelastic-Dipole Dark Matter with FASER

Keith R. Dienes, Jonathan L. Feng, Max Fieg +3

Neutral particles are notoriously difficult to observe through electromagnetic interactions. As a result, they naturally elude detection in most collider detectors. In this paper,…