Giovanni De Lellis - The SND@LHC experiment: status and prospects

Thursday 21 Jul 2022, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Vienna

Bibliothek (HEPHY)

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 < 8.6, 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 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. This region is of particular interest also for future circular colliders and for predictions of very high-energy atmospheric neutrinos. The detector concept is also well suited to searching for Feebly Interacting Particles via signatures of scattering in the detector target. The first phase aims at operating the detector throughout LHC Run 3 to collect a total of about 290 fb−1. A new era of collider neutrino physics is just starting.

11:00 → 12:00 Seminar

Speaker: Giovanni De Lellis (Universita e INFN sezione di Napoli (IT))

SND_LHC_Vienna.pdf