Speaker
Description
The FASER, ForwArd Search ExpeRiment is an experiment under construction at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland. It’s aim is to be operational at the next run of the LHC from 2021 and search for new light and weakly-interacting particles. At high-energy colliders, they may be produced at low transverse momentum and highly collimated in the very forward direction of the collision points of the e.g. proton beams at the LHC. Therefore the experiment is being built at about 480 m downstream of the interaction point of one of the general-purpose experiments and along the beam axis. It is consisting of magnets, a scintillator system, a calorimeter and tracker with several silicon detector layers.
In the presentation, the sensitivity of the experiment will be presented for several benchmark models, namely for dark photons, the dark higgs and axion-like particles. Moreover, the detector layout and components will be described. Details will be given on the status of construction on surface and in the tunnel and latest results of measurements during commissioning of the detector components.
