Seminars

Latest results from the Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at the LHC

Name: Latest results from the Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at the LHC
Start: 2024-04-24T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-04-24T12:30:00+01:00
Location: R61 CR3 (RAL)

by Dr. Michaela Queitsch-Maitland (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 24 Apr 2024, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/London

R61 CR3 (RAL)

Description

A rich physics program remains unexplored in the far-forward region at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). FASER (ForwArd Search ExpeRiment) was installed in 2020 and is designed to both provide world-leading sensitivity to the discovery of new light and weakly coupled elementary particles, and to study the interactions of high-energy neutrinos. It is located 480 m from the ATLAS interaction point on the collision axis line-of-sight and is shielded by 100 m of concrete and rock, creating an extremely low-background environment. This seminar will focus on the latest results from the FASER experiment using data collected in 2022 and 2023, the future of FASER and the proposed Forward Physics Facility (FPF).