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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 FASER analyses, either as signal or background, and it is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-14 FASER Collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , John Anders , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Monica D'Onofrio , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Deion Fellers , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Helena Lefebvre , Lorne Levinson , Ke Li , Jinfeng Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Chiara Magliocca , Fulvio Martinelli , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Matteo Milanesio , Théo Moretti , Magdalena Munker , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Friedemann Neuhaus , Laurie Nevay , Ken Ohashi , Hidetoshi Otono , Hao Pang , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Brian Petersen , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Hiroki Rokujo , Elisa Ruiz-Choliz , André Rubbia , Jorge Sabater-Iglesias , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Anna Sfyrla , Mansoora Shamim , Savannah Shively , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Eric Torrence , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Di Wang , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Samuel Zahorec , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang

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 success, this document outlines the scientific case and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-26 FASER Collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Xiaocong Ai , Saul Alonso-Monsalve , John Anders , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Dhruv Chouhan , Sebastiani Christiano , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Monica D'Onofrio , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Radu Dobre , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Elena Firu , Edward Galantay , Ali Garabaglu , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Michael Holzbock , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Peter Krack , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Lorne Levinson , Botao Li , Jinfeng Liu , Yi Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Chiara Magliocca , Toni Mäkelä , Yasuhiro Maruya , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Matteo Milanesio , Théo Moretti , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Laurie Nevay , Ken Ohashi , Hidetoshi Otono , Hao Pang , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Pawan Pawan , Brian Petersen , Titi Preda , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Juan Rojo , Hiroki Rokujo , André Rubbia , Jorge Sabater-Iglesias , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Anna Sfyrla , Davide Sgalaberna , Mansoora Shamim , Savannah Shively , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Simon Thor , Eric Torrence , Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Monika Wielers , Benjamin James Wilson , Jialin Wu , Johannes Martin Wuthrich , Yue Xu , Samuel Zahorec , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang , Xingyu Zhao

The LHC may produce light, weakly-interacting particles that decay to dark matter, creating an intense and highly collimated beam of dark matter particles in the far-forward direction. We investigate the prospects for detecting this dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Brian Batell , Jonathan L. Feng , Ahmed Ismail , Felix Kling , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Sebastian Trojanowski

We analyze the potential of the recently proposed experiment FACET (Forward-Aperture CMS ExTension) to search for new physics. As an example, we consider the models of Higgs-like scalars with cubic and quartic interactions and Heavy Neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-10 Maksym Ovchynnikov , Viktor Kryshtal , Kyrylo Bondarenko

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 meson decays, which also result in an intense energetic flux…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Roshan Mammen Abraham , Max Fieg

A new fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator is proposed that will use decays of charm mesons to search for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs), which are right-handed partners of the Standard Model neutrinos. The existence of such…

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Keith R. Dienes , Jonathan L. Feng , Max Fieg , Fei Huang , Seung J. Lee , Brooks Thomas

We propose a novel approach for discovering a light dark photon in the forward experiments at the LHC, including the SND@LHC and the FASER experiments. Assuming the dark photon is lighter than twice the electron mass and feebly interacts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-16 Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee , Soo-hyeon Nam

This work explores the potential of the proposed FASER2 experiment at the LHC to determine the properties of a discovered heavy neutral lepton (HNL), including its mass, couplings, and whether it is a Majorana or Dirac fermion. We first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Jonathan L. Feng , Alec Hewitt , Daniel La Rocco , Daniel Whiteson

FASER$\nu$ is a newly proposed experiment which will take data in run III of the LHC during 2021-2023. It will be located in front of the FASER detector, 480~m away from the ATLAS interaction point in the forward direction. Its main goal is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Pouya Bakhti , Yasaman Farzan , Silvia Pascoli

FASER$\nu$ is a newly proposed detector whose main mission is to detect the neutrino flux from the collision of the proton beams at the ATLAS Interaction Point (IP) during the run III of the LHC in 2022-2024. We show that this detector can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Pouya Bakhti , Yasaman Farzan , Silvia Pascoli

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) provide a compelling extension to the Standard Model, addressing the neutrino masses, baryogenesis, and dark matter problems. We perform a model-independent collider study, decoupling the active-sterile mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-14 Nicolás Bernal , Kuldeep Deka , Marta Losada

Confining gauge dynamics in dark sector is promising to provide dark matter with a mass in the range of sub-GeV to GeV. These dark sectors consist of composite particles, such as dark baryons and dark mesons, that are neutral under the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Takumi Kuwahara , Shu-Run Yuan

The smallness of neutrino masses provides a tantalizing allusion to physics beyond the standard model. Heavy neutral leptons ($N$), such as hypothetical sterile neutrinos, accommodate a way to explain this observation, through the see-saw…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-15 Willem Verbeke

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), several far detectors such as FASER and MATHUSLA have been proposed to target the long-lived particles (LLPs) featured with displaced vertices. Naturally one question arises as to the feasibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Zeren Simon Wang , Kechen Wang

The detection of collider neutrinos will provide new insights about neutrino production, propagation, and interactions at TeV energies, the highest human-made energies ever observed. During Run 3 of the LHC, the FASER experiment is expected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 Jason Arakawa , Jonathan L. Feng , Ahmed Ismail , Felix Kling , Michael Waterbury

The ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER) is an experiment searching for new light and weakly-interacting particles at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. FASER is composed of different sub-detectors, including silicon microstrip detectors,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-15 S. Gonzalez-Sevilla

New almost-degenerate charged and neutral heavy leptons are a feature of a number of theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. The prospects for detecting these at the Large Hadron Collider using a time-of-flight technique are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 B. C. Allanach , C. M. Harris , M. A. Parker , P. Richardson , B. R. Webber

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are motivated by attempts to explain neutrino masses and dark matter. If their masses are in the MeV to several GeV range, HNLs are light enough to be copiously produced at collider and accelerator facilities,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-10 Jonathan L. Feng , Alec Hewitt , Felix Kling , Daniel La Rocco

In detecting neutrinos from the Large Hadron Collider, FASER$\nu$ will record the most energetic laboratory neutrinos ever studied. While charged current neutrino scattering events can be cleanly identified by an energetic lepton exiting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-25 Ahmed Ismail , Felix Kling , Roshan Mammen Abraham