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First Physics Results from the FASER Experiment

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2023-05-16 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

FASER is a new LHC experiment designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles that are produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point and travel in the far-forward direction. The first physics results from the initial year of data-taking are presented. A search for dark photons decaying to an electron-positron pair found no events, yielding new constraints on dark photons with couplings ϵ105104\epsilon \sim 10^{-5} - 10^{-4} and masses 10\sim 10 MeV 100- 100 MeV. A search for muon-neutrino charged-current interactions in a tungsten target at the front of the FASER experiment found 15313+12153^{+12}_{-13} neutrino candidates with a negligible background. The reconstructed charge and momentum distributions imply the observation of both neutrinos and anti-neutrinos with an incident neutrino energy above 200 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.2305.08665,
  title  = {First Physics Results from the FASER Experiment},
  author = {Brian Petersen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.08665},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Contribution to the 2023 Electroweak session of the 57th Rencontres de Moriond. 6 pages, 4 figures

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