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Description
SND@LHC is a recent, stand-alone experiment operating at the LHC to perform neutrino measurements. It is located 480m from IP1 in the TI18 tunnel, spanning the unexplored forward region 7.2<𝜂<8.6. Its hybrid detector is composed of 800kg tungsten target-plates, interleaved with emulsion and electronic trackers, followed by a calorimeter and a muon system. This allows to identify all three neutrino flavors, and in turn to perform unique tests of lepton universality, and to probe heavy flavor production in a pseudo-rapidity region not accessible to ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. This region is of particular interest also for future circular colliders and for studies of very high-energy atmospheric neutrinos. The detector is also well suited to search for Feebly Interacting Particles in scattering signatures. The experiment has been running successfully since the start of LHC Run3 in 2022 and has published several results. This talk will present recent results obtained with the collected dataset, along with the physics prospects with full Run3 and for the HL-LHC phase.
