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Description
SND@LHC is a new forward experiment measuring neutrinos produced at the LHC. Its detector has been installed in 2021-2022. The first physics data yielded, among the rest, the first observation of neutrinos produced at a collider.
The detector currently in use is a hybrid system based on a 830 kg target with tracking capabilities, followed by a calorimeter and a muon system. Its configuration allows to identify all three neutrino flavours, opening a unique opportunity to probe heavy flavour production in a $\eta$ region not accessible to ATLAS, CMS and LHCb.
A thorough upgrade is foreseen for Run 4: the new detector will replace emulsions with silicon sensors, use a magnetised HCAL, and add a muon spectrometer. A second detector with complementary coverage is also foreseen, which will vastly reduce many systematics.
This talk will describe both the performance of the current SND@LHC detector and its foreseen upgrade, whose letter of intent is being finalised in these days.
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