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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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-04 FASER Collaboration , Henso Abreu , Elham Amin Mansour , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Florian Bernlochner , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Franck Cadoux , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Andrea Coccaro , Olivier Crespo-Lopez , Stephane Debieux , Monica D'Onofrio , Liam Dougherty , Candan Dozen , Abdallah Ezzat , Yannick Favre , Deion Fellers , Jonathan L. Feng , Didier Ferrere , Edward Karl Galantay , Jonathan Gall , Enrico Gamberini , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Sune Jakobsen , Eliott Johnson , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Felix Kling , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Jesse Krusse , Susanne Kuehn , Helena Lefebvre , Lorne Levinson , Ke Li , Jinfeng Liu , Chiara Magliocca , Fulvio Martinelli , Josh McFayden , Sam Meehan , Matteo Milanesio , Manato Miura , Dimitar Mladenov , Theo Moretti , Magdalena Munker , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Marzio Nessi , Friedemann Neuhaus , Laurie Nevay , John Osborne , Hidetoshi Otono , Carlo Pandini , Hao Pang , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Brian Petersen , Francesco Pietropaolo , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Filippo Resnati , Chiara Rizzi , Hiroki Rokujo , Elisa Ruiz-Choliz , Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen , Francisco Sanchez Galan , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Anna Sfyrla , Savannah Shively , Roland Sipos , John Spencer , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Pierre Thonet , Eric Torrence , Serhan Tufanli , Camille Vendeuvre , Benedikt Vormwald , Di Wang , Stefano Zambito , Gang Zhang

We review the detection capabilities in the forward direction of the various LHC experiments together with the associated physics programme. A selection of measurements accessible with near-beam instrumentation in various sectors (and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 David d'Enterria

Expanding the mass range and techniques by which we search for dark matter is an important part of the worldwide particle physics program. Accelerator-based searches for dark matter and dark sector particles are a uniquely compelling part…

We propose a new channel to search for millicharged particles at the future Super Tau Charm Facility (STCF) via mono-$\pi^0$ signature. For the first time, we compute the mono-$\pi^0$ signal events at the future STCF due to millicharged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-13 Yu Zhang

We propose a novel idea to discover millicharged particles (mCPs) captured by the earth during its existence. It has been demonstrated that the mCPs accumulation inside the earth leads to the enhancement of its number density much larger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-06 Chrisna Setyo Nugroho

The FASER experiment at the LHC is designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point that travel in the far-forward direction. The first results from a search for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-27 FASER Collaboration

We studied the feasibility of an experiment searching for sub-millicharged particles ($\chi$s) using 30 GeV proton fixed-target collisions at J-PARC. The detector is composed of two layers of stacked scintillator bars and PMTs and is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-19 Jeong Hwa Kim , In Sung Hwang , Jae Hyeok Yoo

The LHC will soon provide proton-proton collisions at the unprecedented center of mass energy, $\sqrt{s}=$14 TeV. This not only allows us to probe new regions of high-$p_T$ physics, but also low-$x$ and forward physics. A selection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-10-10 Andrew Hamilton

A rapidity gap program with great potential can be realized at the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, by adding a few simple forward shower counters (FSCs) along the beam line on both sides of the main central detectors, such as CMS. Measurements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Albrow , Albert De Roeck , Valery Khoze , Jerry Lamsa , E. Norbeck , Y. Onel , Risto Orava , M. G. Ryskin

Particles with electric charge q < 10^(-3)e and masses in the range 1--100 MeV/c^2 are not excluded by present experiments. An experiment uniquely suited to the production and detection of such "millicharged" particles has been carried out…

New low-mass particles with very small couplings to standard model particles that travel significant distances before decaying are interesting candidates to address some of the most intriguing questions of modern physics. In this paper, I…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 Jeremi Niedziela

The search for dark matter has been performed mainly for weakly interacting massive particles and massive compact halo objects, and the intermediate mass region has not been investigated experimentally. A method to search dark matter with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-23 Akio Kawasaki

Two far-forward experimental systems are currently taking data during Run 3 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): FASER + FASER$\nu$ and SND@LHC. They are sensitive to some classes of beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) particles, muons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-23 M. V. Garzelli

We propose to search for millicharged particles produced in high-intensity electron beam dumps using small ultralow-threshold sensors. As a concrete example, we consider a Skipper-CCD placed behind the beam dump in Hall A at Jefferson Lab.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Rouven Essig , Peiran Li , Zhen Liu , Megan McDuffie , Ryan Plestid , Hailin Xu

A hidden sector containing light long-lived particles provides a well-motivated place to find new physics. The recently proposed MATHUSLA experiment has the potential to be extremely sensitive to light particles originating from rare meson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Jared A. Evans

We propose a new experiment sensitive to the detection of millicharged particles produced at the $30$ GeV proton fixed-target collisions at J-PARC. The potential site for the experiment is B2 of the Neutrino Monitor building, $280$ m away…

The goal of this report is to give a comprehensive overview of the rich field of forward physics, with a special attention to the topics that can be studied at the LHC. The report starts presenting a selection of the Monte Carlo simulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 K. Akiba , M. Akbiyik , M. Albrow , M. Arneodo , V. Avati , J. Baechler , O. Villalobos Baillie , P. Bartalini , J. Bartels , S. Baur , C. Baus , W. Beaumont , U. Behrens , D. Berge , M. Berretti , E. Bossini , R. Boussarie , S. Brodsky , M. Broz , M. Bruschi , P. Bussey , W. Byczynski , J. C. Cabanillas Noris , E. Calvo Villar , A. Campbell , F. Caporale , N. Cartiglia , W. Carvalho , G. Chachamis , E. Chapon , C. Cheshkov , J. Chwastowski , R. Ciesielski , D. Chinellato , A. Cisek , V. Coco , P. Collins , J. G. Contreras , B. Cox , D. de Jesus Damiao , P. Davis , M. Deile , D. D'Enterria , D. Druzhkin , B. Ducloué , R. Dumps , R. Dzhelyadin , P. Dziurdzia , M. Eliachevitch , P. Fassnacht , F. Ferro , S. Fichet , D. Figueiredo , B. Field , D. Finogeev , R. Fiore , J. Forshaw , M. B. Gay Ducati , A. Gago Medina , M. Gallinaro , A. Granik , G. von Gersdorff , S. Giani , K. Golec-Biernat , V. P. Goncalves , P. Göttlicher , K. Goulianos , J. -Y. Grosslord , L. A. Harland-Lang , H. Van Haevermaet , M. Hentschinski , R. Engel , G. Herrera Corral , J. Hollar , L. Huertas , D. Johnson , I. Katkov , O. Kepka , M. Khakzad , L. Kheyn , V. Khachatryan , V. A. Khoze , S. Klein , M. van Klundert , F. Krauss , A. Kurepin , N. Kurepin , K. Kutak , E. Kuznetsova , G. Latino , P. Lebiedowicz , B. Lenzi , E. Lewandowska , S. Liu , A. Luszczak , M. Luszczak , J. D. Madrigal , M. Mangano , Z. Marcone , C. Marquet , A. D. Martin , T. Martin , M. I. Martinez Hernandez , C. Martins , C. Mayer , R. Mc Nulty , P. Van Mechelen , R. Macula , E. Melo da Costa , T. Mertzimekis , C. Mesropian , M. Mieskolainen , N. Minafra , I. L. Monzon , L. Mundim , B. Murdaca , M. Murray , H. Niewiadowski , J. Nystrand , E. G. de Oliveira , R. Orava , S. Ostapchenko , K. Osterberg , A. Panagiotou , A. Papa , R. Pasechnik , T. Peitzmann , L. A. Perez Moreno , T. Pierog , J. Pinfold , M. Poghosyan , M. E. Pol , W. Prado , V. Popov , M. Rangel , A. Reshetin , J. -P. Revol , M. Rijssenbeek , M. Rodriguez , B. Roland , C. Royon , M. Ruspa , M. Ryskin , A. Sabio Vera , G. Safronov , T. Sako , H. Schindler , D. Salek , K. Safarik , M. Saimpert , A. Santoro , R. Schicker , J. Seger , S. Sen , A. Shabanov , W. Schafer , G. Gil Da Silveira , P. Skands , R. Soluk , A. van Spilbeeck , R. Staszewski , S. Stevenson , W. J. Stirling , M. Strikman , A. Szczurek , L. Szymanowski , J. D. Tapia Takaki , M. Tasevsky , K. Taesoo , C. Thomas , S. R. Torres , A. Tricomi , M. Trzebinski , D. Tsybychev , N. Turini , R. Ulrich , E. Usenko , J. Varela , M. Lo Vetere , A. Villatoro Tello , A. Vilela Pereira , D. Volyanskyy , S. Wallon , G. Wilkinson , H. Wöhrmann , K. C. Zapp , Y. Zoccarato

FASER is a proposed small and inexpensive experiment designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles at the LHC. Such particles are dominantly produced along the beam collision axis and may be long-lived, traveling hundreds of…

In this paper, we propose an experiment, LANSCE-mQ, aiming to detect fractionally charged and millicharged particles (mCP) using an 800 MeV proton beam fixed target at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) facility. This search can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-19 Yu-Dai Tsai , Insung Hwang , Ryan Schmitz , Matthew Citron , Kranti Gunthoti , Jacob Steenis , Hoyong Jeong , Hyunki Moon , Jae Hyeok Yoo , Ming Xiong Liu

In this paper, we propose a dedicated forward detector, FOREHUNT (FORward~Experiment~for~HUNdred~TeV), for 100 TeV FCC-hh for the detection of light long-lived particles (LLP) coming from $B$-meson decay. We calculate the signal acceptance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-06 Biplob Bhattacherjee , Herbi K. Dreiner , Nivedita Ghosh , Shigeki Matsumoto , Rhitaja Sengupta , Prabhat Solanki