Tag: FASER
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Past and Present of the LHC Physics Programme: A Viewpoint
Before the LHC began operations, expectations were immense. It was not perceived simply as CERN’s next machine after LEP, but as “the next machine after everything”—a collider expected to settle how electroweak symmetry is broken.
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From beam dumps to missing energy: the SPS search for hidden particles
For more than four decades, CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron has served as a testing ground for new ways to search for particles that interact only feebly with ordinary matter. In a recent lecture, NA64 co-spokesperson Paolo Crivelli traced the evolution of this programme – from the first beam-dump experiments to missing-energy and missing-momentum searches, precision…
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Designing for the unusual: LLP2026 and the lifetime frontier
LLP2026 brought around 80 theorists and experimentalists to Cambridge at a moment of transition for the lifetime frontier. From new searches using Run 3 LHC data and unconventional signatures to prototype detectors and new experimental concepts, the workshop showed how long-recognised blind spots are being turned into concrete experimental capabilities.
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FASER opens new windows on dark sectors and TeV neutrino physics
FASER opens new windows on dark sectors and TeV neutrino physics The FASER experiment has presented a series of new results that highlight the growing breadth of its physics programme at the LHC. These include a search for dark photons with the main FASER detector, a first search for neutrino-induced charm production with FASERν, and
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A new High-Granularity pre-shower detector for FASER
A new High-Granularity pre-shower detector for FASER The ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER) is searching for new light and weakly interacting particles decaying into charged final states at the LHC [1][2]. While the first physics data taking has just started an upgrade is already foreseen to enhance the sensitivity also to Long-Lived Particles (LLP) decaying into
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FASER Detector Installation
FASER Detector Installation During March the FASER detector was successfully installed into the LHC complex. FASER, a new small LHC experiment, designed to search for light, weakly interacting new particles in the LHC collisions was proposed in 2017, and after review by the LHCC, approved by CERN in March 2019. Since then, the FASER team
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FASERν: looking for high-energy collider neutrinos
FASERν: looking for high-energy collider neutrinos In December 2019 a proposed upgrade of the FASER detector designed to study neutrinos at the LHC was approved by CERN. The new detector called FASERν will be placed in front of the main FASER detector, 480-m in front of the ATLAS collision point, and exactly aligned with the
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FASER joins the exploration for new physics
FASER joins the exploration for new physics On March 5th the CERN Research Board approved the ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER), for installation at the LHC during Long Shutdown 2. FASER is an experiment designed to broaden the search for new physics at the LHC, by looking for light, weakly- interacting new particles that could be
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FASER experiment to look for long-lived particles
FASER experiment to look for long-lived particles At its last meeting CERN’s Research Board approved a new experiment that will look for light and weakly interacting long-lived particles at the LHC. The ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER) will search for particles that might be produced parallel to the LHC’s beam line and may travel hundreds of