Speaker
Description
I will discuss the resonant production and detection of charged mesons in existing and near-future neutrino scattering experiments with $E_\nu \lesssim 1$ TeV, characteristic of high-energy atmospheric neutrinos or collider-sourced neutrino beams.
The most promising candidate is the reaction $\bar{\nu}_e e^-\rightarrow \rho^-\rightarrow \pi^- \pi^0$. I will discuss detection prospects at FASER$\nu$, the LHC's forward physics facility with nuclear emulsion (FASER$\nu$2) and liquid argon detectors (FLArE) and estimate the number
of expected resonance-mediated events in the existing data set of IceCube. In particular, dozens of events are predicted at the forward physics facility.
I will also outline possible detection strategies for the different experimental environments by identifying cuts with order one signal efficiency that
could potentially suppress backgrounds at FASER$\nu$, yielding a signal-to-background ratio larger than 1. Antineutrino-induced $s$-channel meson resonances
are yet unobserved Standard Model scattering processes which offer a realistic target for near-term experiments.
