The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, Experiments, and Physics Potential
Abstract
The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a proposal to create a cavern with the space and infrastructure to support a suite of far-forward experiments at the Large Hadron Collider during the High Luminosity era. Located along the beam collision axis and shielded from the interaction point by at least 100 m of concrete and rock, the FPF will house experiments that will detect particles outside the acceptance of the existing large LHC experiments and will observe rare and exotic processes in an extremely low-background environment. In this work, we summarize the current status of plans for the FPF, including recent progress in civil engineering in identifying promising sites for the FPF and the experiments currently envisioned to realize the FPF's physics potential. We then review the many Standard Model and new physics topics that will be advanced by the FPF, including searches for long-lived particles, probes of dark matter and dark sectors, high-statistics studies of TeV neutrinos of all three flavors, aspects of perturbative and non-perturbative QCD, and high-energy astroparticle physics.
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@article{arxiv.2109.10905,
title = {The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, Experiments, and Physics Potential},
author = {Luis A. Anchordoqui and Akitaka Ariga and Tomoko Ariga and Weidong Bai and Kincso Balazs and Brian Batell and Jamie Boyd and Joseph Bramante and Mario Campanelli and Adrian Carmona and Francesco G. Celiberto and Grigorios Chachamis and Matthew Citron and Giovanni De Lellis and Albert De Roeck and Hans Dembinski and Peter B. Denton and Antonia Di Crecsenzo and Milind V. Diwan and Liam Dougherty and Herbi K. Dreiner and Yong Du and Rikard Enberg and Yasaman Farzan and Jonathan L. Feng and Max Fieg and Patrick Foldenauer and Saeid Foroughi-Abari and Alexander Friedland and Michael Fucilla and Jonathan Gall and Maria Vittoria Garzelli and Francesco Giuli and Victor P. Goncalves and Marco Guzzi and Francis Halzen and Juan Carlos Helo and Christopher S. Hill and Ahmed Ismail and Ameen Ismail and Richard Jacobsson and Sudip Jana and Yu Seon Jeong and Krzysztof Jodlowski and Kevin J. Kelly and Felix Kling and Fnu Karan Kumar and Zhen Liu and Rafal Maciula and Roshan Mammen Abraham and Julien Manshanden and Josh McFayden and Mohammed M. A. Mohammed and Pavel M. Nadolsky and Nobuchika Okada and John Osborne and Hidetoshi Otono and Vishvas Pandey and Alessandro Papa and Digesh Raut and Mary Hall Reno and Filippo Resnati and Adam Ritz and Juan Rojo and Ina Sarcevic and Christiane Scherb and Holger Schulz and Pedro Schwaller and Dipan Sengupta and Torbjörn Sjöstrand and Tyler B. Smith and Dennis Soldin and Anna Stasto and Antoni Szczurek and Zahra Tabrizi and Sebastian Trojanowski and Yu-Dai Tsai and Douglas Tuckler and Martin W. Winkler and Keping Xie and Yue Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.10905},
year = {2022}
}
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revised version, accepted by Physics Reports