The FASER Detector
Abstract
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 particles may be produced in the very forward direction of the LHC's high-energy collisions and then decay to visible particles inside the FASER detector, which is placed 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction point, aligned with the beam collisions axis. FASER also includes a sub-detector, FASER, designed to detect neutrinos produced in the LHC collisions and to study their properties. In this paper, each component of the FASER detector is described in detail, as well as the installation of the experiment system and its commissioning using cosmic-rays collected in September 2021 and during the LHC pilot beam test carried out in October 2021. FASER will start taking LHC collision data in 2022, and will run throughout LHC Run 3.
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@article{arxiv.2207.11427,
title = {The FASER Detector},
author = {FASER Collaboration and Henso Abreu and Elham Amin Mansour and Claire Antel and Akitaka Ariga and Tomoko Ariga and Florian Bernlochner and Tobias Boeckh and Jamie Boyd and Lydia Brenner and Franck Cadoux and David W. Casper and Charlotte Cavanagh and Xin Chen and Andrea Coccaro and Olivier Crespo-Lopez and Stephane Debieux and Monica D'Onofrio and Liam Dougherty and Candan Dozen and Abdallah Ezzat and Yannick Favre and Deion Fellers and Jonathan L. Feng and Didier Ferrere and Edward Karl Galantay and Jonathan Gall and Enrico Gamberini and Stephen Gibson and Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla and Carl Gwilliam and Daiki Hayakawa and Shih-Chieh Hsu and Zhen Hu and Giuseppe Iacobucci and Tomohiro Inada and Sune Jakobsen and Eliott Johnson and Enrique Kajomovitz and Hiroaki Kawahara and Felix Kling and Umut Kose and Rafaella Kotitsa and Jesse Krusse and Susanne Kuehn and Helena Lefebvre and Lorne Levinson and Ke Li and Jinfeng Liu and Chiara Magliocca and Fulvio Martinelli and Josh McFayden and Sam Meehan and Matteo Milanesio and Manato Miura and Dimitar Mladenov and Theo Moretti and Magdalena Munker and Mitsuhiro Nakamura and Toshiyuki Nakano and Marzio Nessi and Friedemann Neuhaus and Laurie Nevay and John Osborne and Hidetoshi Otono and Carlo Pandini and Hao Pang and Lorenzo Paolozzi and Brian Petersen and Francesco Pietropaolo and Markus Prim and Michaela Queitsch-Maitland and Filippo Resnati and Chiara Rizzi and Hiroki Rokujo and Elisa Ruiz-Choliz and Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen and Francisco Sanchez Galan and Osamu Sato and Paola Scampoli and Kristof Schmieden and Matthias Schott and Anna Sfyrla and Savannah Shively and Roland Sipos and John Spencer and Yosuke Takubo and Noshin Tarannum and Ondrej Theiner and Pierre Thonet and Eric Torrence and Serhan Tufanli and Camille Vendeuvre and Benedikt Vormwald and Di Wang and Stefano Zambito and Gang Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.11427},
year = {2024}
}
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92 pages, 72 Figures