16–19 May 2023
Texas A&M University
US/Central timezone

First FASER Physics Results

16 May 2023, 14:55
25m
Hawking Auditorium (Texas A&M University)

Hawking Auditorium

Texas A&M University

Speaker

Deion Elgin Fellers (University of Oregon (US))

Description

This talk will present the first physics results of the FASER experiment, where we were the first to directly observe neutrino interactions at a particle collider experiment and also probed previously unconstrained phase space of the dark photon with couplings $ϵ∼10^{-5}−10^{-4}$ and masses ∼10 MeV - 100 MeV. FASER is an experiment dedicated to searching for light, extremely weakly-interacting particles that are produced in the very forward direction of high-energy pp collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The detector is placed 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction point, aligned with the beam collisions axis, and consists of both active electronic components intended to search for BSM physics and a passive tungsten emulsion target intended for neutrino physics. The results presented in this talk were obtained using a dataset collected at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$=13.6 TeV in 2022 during LHC Run 3.

Author

Deion Elgin Fellers (University of Oregon (US))

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