| Article | |
| Title | SND@LHC neutrino results |
| Author(s) | Ilieva, Simona Ilieva (Naples U. ; INFN, Naples) |
| Collaboration | SND@LHC Collaboration |
| Publication | 2024 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| In: | PoS LHCP2023 (2024) 038 |
| In: | 11th Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference 2023, Belgrade, Serbia, 22 - 26 May 2023, pp.038 |
| DOI | 10.22323/1.450.0038 |
| Subject category | Particle Physics - Experiment |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | SND@LHC |
| Abstract | The Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC (SND@LHC) is a compact and standalone experiment, which started taking data in the beginning of Run 3 of the LHC. The experiment is designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC in an energy range between 100 GeV–1 TeV and hitherto unexplored pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < 𝜂 < 8.4, complementary to all the other experiments at the LHC. The detector, located 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction point in the TI18 tunnel, comprises a veto system followed by an 830 kg target mass of tungsten plates, interleaved with emulsion and Scintillating Fiber (SciFi) electronic trackers, and then a calorimeter and a downstream muon system (DS).Using a data set collected by the SND@LHC electronic detectors in the first year of detector operation in 2022, eight muon neutrino candidates have been identified through their charged- current interactions in the detector with an estimated background of 0.086 events, yielding a significance of 6.8 standard deviations for the observed 𝜈 𝜇 signal. To facilitate the background assessment, the muon flux in the TI18 tunnel has been determined. These proceedings describe the first SND@LHC neutrino analysis and background estimation. |
| Copyright/License | © 2024-2025 The author(s) (License: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0) |
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