"We will detect the highest-energy neutrinos that have ever been produced from a human-made source." "Given the power of our new detector and its prime location at CERN, we expect to be able to record more than 10,000 neutrino interactions in the next run of the LHC, beginning in 2022," said co-author David Casper, FASER project co-leader and associate professor of physics & astronomy at UCI.
"Second, our efforts demonstrated the effectiveness of using an emulsion detector to observe these kinds of neutrino interactions." "First, it verified that the position forward of the ATLAS interaction point at the LHC is the right location for detecting collider neutrinos," Feng said. He said the discovery made during the pilot gave his team two crucial pieces of information. "This significant breakthrough is a step toward developing a deeper understanding of these elusive particles and the role they play in the universe." "Prior to this project, no sign of neutrinos has ever been seen at a particle collider," said co-author Jonathan Feng, UCI Distinguished Professor of physics & astronomy and co-leader of the FASER Collaboration.
In a paper published Friday in the journal Physical Review D, the researchers describe how they observed six neutrino interactions during a pilot run of a compact emulsion detector installed at the LHC in 2018. Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared their report: "The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has achieved the first-ever detection of neutrino candidates produced by the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN facility near Geneva, Switzerland," reports.
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