Name: 8th Forward Physics Facility Meeting
Start: 2025-01-21T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-01-22T18:15:00+01:00
Location: CERN

8th Forward Physics Facility Meeting

from Tuesday, 21 January 2025 (09:00) to Wednesday, 22 January 2025 (18:15)

Monday, 20 January 2025
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
09:00 Opening Remarks from Organizers - Jamie Boyd (CERN)
Opening Remarks from Organizers
- Jamie Boyd (CERN)
09:00 - 09:10
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
09:15 PBC and the FPF - Gunar Schnell
PBC and the FPF
- Gunar Schnell
09:15 - 09:25
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
09:30 New Results from FPF Pathfinder Experiments - Michaela Queitsch-Maitland (University of Manchester (GB))
New Results from FPF Pathfinder Experiments
- Michaela Queitsch-Maitland (University of Manchester (GB))
09:30 - 09:55
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
10:05 New Particles: Opportunities and Perspectives - Maxim Pospelov
New Particles: Opportunities and Perspectives
- Maxim Pospelov
10:05 - 10:30
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
11:10 Collider Neutrinos: Opportunities and Perspectives - Felix Kling (DESY)
Collider Neutrinos: Opportunities and Perspectives
- Felix Kling (DESY)
11:10 - 11:35
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
11:45 Civil Engineering: Update and Status - Tamara Alice Bud (CERN)
Civil Engineering: Update and Status
- Tamara Alice Bud (CERN)
11:45 - 12:05
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
12:15 Integration: Update and Status - Julien Prosic
Integration: Update and Status
- Julien Prosic
12:15 - 12:35
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
12:45 Group Photo
Group Photo
12:45 - 13:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 15:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
15:00 Parallel 1: New Physics Searches
New Physics Searches
15:00 - 18:15
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

15:00 Cosmic Millicharge Background: Probing Reheating Cosmology, String Theory, and GUTs in FORMOSA & FPF - Yu-Dai Tsai (University of California, Irvine)

15:20 Dark photon pair production via off-shell dark Higgs at FASER - Yohei Nakashima

15:40 Dark Vector Splitting Functions in Proton Bremsstrahlung - Saeid Foroughi-Abari

16:00 Discovering Light Scalars Beyond Minimal Flavor Violation - Noam Burger

16:50 FASER-2 simulation and detector design performance document - Josh McFayden (University of Sussex) Olivier Salin (Université Paris-Saclay)

17:10 DELIGHT and FOREHUNT: dedicated detectors at FCC-hh for light long-lived particles - Rhitaja Sengupta (BCTP and Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Germany)

17:30 Unlocking the Inelastic Dark Matter Window with Vector Mediators - Peter Reimitz

17:50 Exploring the LHC as a TeV Muon Beam Dump: Muonphilic Scalars at FASER - Roshan Mammen Abraham (University of California Irvine (US))
Parallel 2: Neutrino Measurements
Neutrino Measurements
15:00 - 18:15
Room: 6/2-004
Contributions

15:00 Sweeper Magnet study - Kohei Chinone (Chiba University (JP))

15:20 Optical readout option for the FLArE detector - k Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool (GB))

15:40 Data-driven constraints on the prompt neutrino fluxes - Jelle Koorn Jukka John (Nikhef Theory Group)

16:00 Unravelling New Physics Signals at the HL-LHC with Low-Energy Constraints - Elie Hammou

16:50 Discovering neutrino tridents at FASER$\nu$2 - Toni Makela (University of California, Irvine)

17:10 Tau polarization effects in $\nu_\tau / \bar{\nu}_\tau $ - tungsten interactions at the LHC energies - Reinaldo Francener (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

17:30 FORTVNE: scintillator bar-tungsten detector for FASER upgrades - Wenjie Wu (University of California, Irvine) Wenjie Wu (University of California, Irvine)

17:50 FASERCal: High-Energy Neutrino Measurements at FASER - Charlotte Cavanagh (ETH Zurich (CH))
19:00 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
19:00 - 21:30
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
09:00 FASERnu2 - Tomoko Ariga (Kyushu University (JP))
FASERnu2
- Tomoko Ariga (Kyushu University (JP))
09:00 - 09:20
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
09:30 FASER2 - Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB)) Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
FASER2
- Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
- Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
09:30 - 09:50
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
10:00 FORMOSA - Juan Salvador Tafoya Vargas (University of California Davis (US))
FORMOSA
- Juan Salvador Tafoya Vargas (University of California Davis (US))
10:00 - 10:20
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
11:00 FLArE Simulations - Matteo Vicenzi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
FLArE Simulations
- Matteo Vicenzi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
11:00 - 11:20
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
11:30 FLArE Design - Steven Linden
FLArE Design
- Steven Linden
11:30 - 11:50
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
12:00 LHC neutrinos in Surface Detectors - Toni Makela (University of California, Irvine)
LHC neutrinos in Surface Detectors
- Toni Makela (University of California, Irvine)
12:00 - 12:20
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
14:05 Status of Neutrino Interactions with GENIE - Alfonso Andres Garcia Soto (IFIC)
Status of Neutrino Interactions with GENIE
- Alfonso Andres Garcia Soto (IFIC)
14:05 - 14:15
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
14:20 An event generator for Lepton-Hadron Deep Inelastic Scattering at NLO+PS with POWHEG including mass effects - Giovanni Limatola
An event generator for Lepton-Hadron Deep Inelastic Scattering at NLO+PS with POWHEG including mass effects
- Giovanni Limatola
14:20 - 14:30
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
14:35 An event generator for neutrino-induced Deep Inelastic Scattering and applications to neutrino astronomy - Rhorry Gauld (MPP Munich)
An event generator for neutrino-induced Deep Inelastic Scattering and applications to neutrino astronomy
- Rhorry Gauld (MPP Munich)
14:35 - 14:45
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
14:50 A Phenomenological Analysis of LHC Neutrino Scattering at NLO Accuracy Matched to Parton Showers - Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
A Phenomenological Analysis of LHC Neutrino Scattering at NLO Accuracy Matched to Parton Showers
- Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
14:50 - 15:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
15:05 DIscussion - Felix Kling (DESY)
DIscussion
- Felix Kling (DESY)
15:05 - 15:25
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
16:00 ESPPU: Document and Plans - Jamie Boyd (CERN) Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB)) Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB)) Felix Kling (DESY) Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Albert De Roeck (CERN)
ESPPU: Document and Plans
- Jamie Boyd (CERN)
- Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
- Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
- Felix Kling (DESY)
- Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
- Albert De Roeck (CERN)
16:00 - 16:40
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
16:55 Timeline, Funding, Project Management - Albert De Roeck (CERN) Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Jamie Boyd (CERN)
Timeline, Funding, Project Management
- Albert De Roeck (CERN)
- Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
- Jamie Boyd (CERN)
16:55 - 17:45
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin