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Results from SND@LHC

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2023-10-25 v1

Abstract

SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in a hitherto unexplored pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2<η<8.47.2 < \eta < 8.4, complementary to all the other experiments at the LHC. The experiment is located 480 m downstream of IP1 in the unused TI18 tunnel. The detector is composed of a hybrid system based on an 800 kg target mass of tungsten plates, interleaved with emulsion and electronic trackers, followed downstream by a calorimeter and a muon system. The configuration allows efficiently distinguishing between all three neutrino flavours, opening a unique opportunity to probe physics of heavy flavour production at the LHC in the region that is not accessible to ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. SND@LHC has started taking data in 2022 and in this work the direct observation of muon neutrino interaction in the detector is reported.

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@article{arxiv.2310.15791,
  title  = {Results from SND@LHC},
  author = {Ettore Zaffaroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.15791},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

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

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