Conveners
QCD and Neutrinos
- Maria Vittoria Garzelli
Charged current neutrino interactions have been extensively studied in the context of various experiments, including FASER$\nu$. The presence of a charged lepton in the final state allows for easy identification of candidate signal events and incoming beam energy reconstruction. Neutral current neutrino interaction on the other hand have a neutrino in the final state. This imposes two...
Tau neutrino is the least known particle of the Standard Model, first discovered by DONUT experiment in 2001. In DONUT, using tau neutrino interaction cross section was measured with large systematical (~50%) and statistical (~30%) errors. The main source of systematical error is due to a poor knowledge of the tau neutrino flux from Ds decays. The DsTau experiment at CERN-SPS has been...
We calculate the prompt muon and tau neutrino (and antineutrino) number of events in the far forward region at the LHC. In a region as such, the heavy quark decay dominates the tau neutrino production. The hadronic charm and bottom hadron production cross section is evaluated at the next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The intrinsic transverse momentum of the initial partons becomes...
In the very forward region of the LHC, a number of tau neutrinos can be produced mostly from the $D_s^\pm$ decay. For an integrated luminosity of 3000 $\rm fb^{-1}$ at the HL-LHC, thousands of charged current tau neutrino events are expected in a detector of $\rm m^3$ size. It will allow the study of the mixing between sterile neutrinos and tau neutrinos with the fact that the possible...
The FASER$\nu$ detector is a newly proposed detector whose main mission is to detect neutrino flux from the collision of the proton beams at the ATLAS Interaction Point (IP) during run III of the LHC in 2021-2023. We show that this detector can also test certain beyond standard model scenarios, especially the ones in which the neutrino interaction with matter fields can produce new unstable...
We give a short review of recent Mueller-Navelet jets studies at the LHC and we propose new related observables to be used as probes of the BFKL dynamics.
