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Report number	CERN-EP-2022-203
Title	SND@LHC: The Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC
Author(s)	Acampora, G. ; Ahdida, C. ; Albanese, R. ; Albrecht, C. ; Alexandrov, A. ; Andreini, M. ; Anokhina, A. ; Auberson, N. ; Baldanza, C. ; Battilana, C. ; Bay, A. ; Bernard, F. ; Bestmann, P. ; Betancourt, C. ; Blanco, A. ; Bogomilov, M. ; Bonacorsi, D. ; Bonivento, W.M. ; Bordalo, P. ; Boyarsky, A. ; Breglio, G. ; Buonaura, A. ; Buontempo, S. ; Cafaro, V.D. ; Callignon, M. ; Camporesi, T. ; Campanelli, M. ; Canale, V. ; Cassese, F. ; Castro, A. ; Centanni, D. ; Cepeda Godoy, S.A. ; Cerutti, F. ; Charitonidis, N. ; Chernyavskiy, M. ; Choi, K.-Y. ; Cholak, S. ; Cicero, V. ; Cindolo, F. ; Climescu, M. ; Conaboy, A.P. ; Congedo, L. ; Crespo, O. ; Cristinziani, M. ; Crupano, A. ; Dallavalle, G.M. ; D'Ambrosio, N. ; De Carvalho Saraiva, J. ; De Bryas Dexmiers D'Archiac, P.T. ; De Lellis, G. ; de Magistris, M. ; De Roeck, A. ; De Rújula, A. ; De Serio, M. ; De Simone, D. ; Dedenko, L. ; Di Crescenzo, A. ; Di Giulio, L. ; Dolmatov, A. ; Dreyfus, L. ; Durhan, O. ; Fabbri, F. ; Fasanella, D. ; Fedotovs, F. ; Ferrillo, M. ; Ferro-Luzzi, M. ; Fienga, F. ; Fini, R.A. ; Fiorillo, A. ; Fonte, P. ; Fresa, R. ; Frei, R. ; Funk, W. ; Galati, G. ; Galkin, V. ; Garay Walls, F. ; Garcia Alia, R. ; Gerbershagen, A. ; Giordano, V. ; Golovatiuk, A. ; Golutvin, A. ; Gorshenkov, M. ; Graverini, E. ; Grenard, J.-L. ; Guler, A.M. ; Gulyaeva, V. ; Haefeli, G.J. ; Helo, J.C. ; Herwijnen, E.van ; Iengo, P. ; Ilieva, S. ; Infantino, A. ; Irace, A. ; Iuliano, A. ; Jacobsson, R. ; Jacquart, M. ; Kamiscioglu, C. ; Khalikov, E. ; Kim, Y.G. ; Kim, S.H. ; Komatsu, M. ; Konovalova, N. ; Kovalenko, S. ; Krasilnikova, I. ; Kuleshov, S. ; Lacker, H.M. ; Lantwin, O. ; Lasagni Manghi, F. ; Lauria, A. ; Lee, K.S. ; Lee, K.Y. ; Leonardo, N. ; Liz Vargas, M.P. ; Lo Meo, S. ; Lemettais, C. ; Loschiavo, V.P. ; Lopes, L. ; Lussi, B. ; Marcellini, S. ; Margiotta, A. ; Magnan, A. ; Maier, R. ; Maietta, M. ; Malinin, A. ; Marrazzo, V.R. ; Maurer, Y. ; Managadze, A.K. ; Mascellani, A. ; Miano, A. ; Mikulenko, A. ; Minelli, F. ; Montanari, A. ; Montesi, M.C. ; Naka, T. ; Navarria, F.L. ; Ogawa, S. ; Okateva, N. ; Owtscharenko, N. ; Ovchynnikov, M. ; Park, B.D. ; Passeggio, G. ; Pastore, A. ; Patel, M. ; Patrizii, L. ; Perrotta, A. ; Petrov, A. ; Podgrudkov, D. ; Polini, A. ; Polukhina, N. ; Prota, A. ; Queiroz, F. ; Quercia, A. ; Ramos, S. ; Ratnikov, F. ; Reghunath, A. ; Riccio, M. ; Rodrigues Cavalcante, A.B. ; Roganova, T. ; Rovelli, T. ; Ruchayskiy, O. ; Ruf, T. ; Sabate Gilarte, M. ; Sanchez Galan, F. ; Santos Diaz, P. ; Schaffner, M. ; Schneider, O. ; Sekhniaidze, G. ; Serra, N. ; Shchedrina, T. ; Shchutska, L. ; Shevchenko, V. ; Shibuya, H. ; Shirobokov, S. ; Shmanin, E. ; Simone, S. ; Siroli, G.P. ; Sito, L. ; Sirri, G. ; Schmidt, J. ; Soares, G. ; Sohn, J.Y. ; Soto Sandoval, O.J. ; Spurio, M. ; Starkov, N. ; Tastet, J.L. ; Timiryasov, I. ; Tioukov, V. ; Tosi, N. ; Trippl, C. ; Ulloa Poblete, P.A. ; Ursov, E. ; Ustyuzhanin, A. ; Vankova-Kirilova, G. ; Vendeuvre, C. ; Visone, C. ; Vollhardt, A. ; Wanke, R. ; Yoon, C.S. ; Zamora Saa, J. ; Zaffaroni, E. ; Zick, H.J.
Corporate author(s)	The SND@LHC collaboration
Publication	2022
Collaboration	SND@LHC
Imprint	26 Sep 2022
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; SND@LHC
Keywords	flavor physics ; forward physics ; detector ; neutrino physics
Abstract	SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in the pseudo-rapidity region of ${\num{7.2} < \eta < \num{8.4}}$. The experiment is located \SI{480}{m} downstream of the ATLAS interaction point, in the TI18 tunnel. The detector is composed of a hybrid system based on an \SI{830}{kg} target made of tungsten plates, interleaved with emulsion and electronic trackers, also acting as an electromagnetic calorimeter, and followed by a hadronic calorimeter and a muon identification system. The detector is able to distinguish interactions among all three neutrino flavours, which allows probing the physics of heavy flavour production at the LHC in the very forward region. This region is of particular interest for future circular colliders and for the very high energy astrophysical neutrino experiments. The detector is also able to search for the scattering of Feebly Interacting Particles. In its first phase, the detector will operate throughout LHC Run 3 and collect a total of \SI{290}{fb^{-1}}.
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