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Letter of Intent: FASER - FORWARD SEARCH EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC
FASER is a proposed small and inexpensive experiment designed to search for light, weakly interacting particles at the LHC. Such particles are dominantly produced along the beam collision axis and may be long-lived, traveling hundreds of meters before decaying. To exploit both of these properties, F...
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author | Ariga, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Boyd, Jamie Casper, David W. Feng, Jonathan L. Galon, Iftah Hsu, Shih-Chieh Kling, Felix Otono, Hidetoshi Petersen, Brian Sato, Osamu Soffa, Aaron M. Swaney, Jeffrey R. Trojanowski, Sebastian |
author_facet | Ariga, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Boyd, Jamie Casper, David W. Feng, Jonathan L. Galon, Iftah Hsu, Shih-Chieh Kling, Felix Otono, Hidetoshi Petersen, Brian Sato, Osamu Soffa, Aaron M. Swaney, Jeffrey R. Trojanowski, Sebastian |
author_sort | Ariga, Akitaka |
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description | FASER is a proposed small and inexpensive experiment designed to search for light, weakly interacting particles at the LHC. Such particles are dominantly produced along the beam collision axis and may be long-lived, traveling hundreds of meters before decaying. To exploit both of these properties, FASER is to be located along the beam collision axis, 480 m downstream from the ATLAS interaction point, in the unused service tunnel TI18. We propose that FASER be installed in TI18 in Long Shutdown 2 in time to collect data from 2021-23 during Run 3 of the 14 TeV LHC. FASER will detect new particles that decay within a cylindrical volume with radius R = 10 cm and length L = 1:5 m. With these small dimensions, FASER will complement the LHC's existing physics program, extending its discovery potential to a host of new particles, including dark photons, axion-like particles, and other CP-odd scalars. A FLUKA simulation and analytical estimates have confirmed that numerous potential backgrounds are highly suppressed at the FASER location, and the first in situ measurements are currently underway. We describe FASER's location and discovery potential, its target signals and backgrounds, the detector's layout and components, and the experiment's preliminary cost estimate, funding, and timeline. |
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spelling | cern-26423512021-12-21T11:10:42Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2642351Ariga, AkitakaAriga, TomokoBoyd, JamieCasper, David W.Feng, Jonathan L.Galon, IftahHsu, Shih-ChiehKling, FelixOtono, HidetoshiPetersen, BrianSato, OsamuSoffa, Aaron M.Swaney, Jeffrey R.Trojanowski, SebastianLetter of Intent: FASER - FORWARD SEARCH EXPERIMENT AT THE LHCDetectors and Experimental TechniquesParticle Physics - ExperimentParticle Physics - PhenomenologyFASER is a proposed small and inexpensive experiment designed to search for light, weakly interacting particles at the LHC. Such particles are dominantly produced along the beam collision axis and may be long-lived, traveling hundreds of meters before decaying. To exploit both of these properties, FASER is to be located along the beam collision axis, 480 m downstream from the ATLAS interaction point, in the unused service tunnel TI18. We propose that FASER be installed in TI18 in Long Shutdown 2 in time to collect data from 2021-23 during Run 3 of the 14 TeV LHC. FASER will detect new particles that decay within a cylindrical volume with radius R = 10 cm and length L = 1:5 m. With these small dimensions, FASER will complement the LHC's existing physics program, extending its discovery potential to a host of new particles, including dark photons, axion-like particles, and other CP-odd scalars. A FLUKA simulation and analytical estimates have confirmed that numerous potential backgrounds are highly suppressed at the FASER location, and the first in situ measurements are currently underway. We describe FASER's location and discovery potential, its target signals and backgrounds, the detector's layout and components, and the experiment's preliminary cost estimate, funding, and timeline.FASER is a proposed small and inexpensive experiment designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles at the LHC. Such particles are dominantly produced along the beam collision axis and may be long-lived, traveling hundreds of meters before decaying. To exploit both of these properties, FASER is to be located along the beam collision axis, 480 m downstream from the ATLAS interaction point, in the unused service tunnel TI18. We propose that FASER be installed in TI18 in Long Shutdown 2 in time to collect data from 2021-23 during Run 3 of the 14 TeV LHC. FASER will detect new particles that decay within a cylindrical volume with radius R= 10 cm and length L = 1.5 m. With these small dimensions, FASER will complement the LHC's existing physics program, extending its discovery potential to a host of new particles, including dark photons, axion-like particles, and other CP-odd scalars. A FLUKA simulation and analytical estimates have confirmed that numerous potential backgrounds are highly suppressed at the FASER location, and the first in situ measurements are currently underway. We describe FASER's location and discovery potential, its target signals and backgrounds, the detector's layout and components, and the experiment's preliminary cost estimate, funding, and timeline.arXiv:1811.10243CERN-LHCC-2018-030LHCC-I-032UCI-TR-2018-18KYUSHU-RCAPP-2018-05LHCC-I-032oai:cds.cern.ch:26423512018-10-08 |
spellingShingle | Detectors and Experimental Techniques Particle Physics - Experiment Particle Physics - Phenomenology Ariga, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Boyd, Jamie Casper, David W. Feng, Jonathan L. Galon, Iftah Hsu, Shih-Chieh Kling, Felix Otono, Hidetoshi Petersen, Brian Sato, Osamu Soffa, Aaron M. Swaney, Jeffrey R. Trojanowski, Sebastian Letter of Intent: FASER - FORWARD SEARCH EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC |
title | Letter of Intent: FASER - FORWARD SEARCH EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC |
title_full | Letter of Intent: FASER - FORWARD SEARCH EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC |
title_fullStr | Letter of Intent: FASER - FORWARD SEARCH EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC |
title_full_unstemmed | Letter of Intent: FASER - FORWARD SEARCH EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC |
title_short | Letter of Intent: FASER - FORWARD SEARCH EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC |
title_sort | letter of intent: faser - forward search experiment at the lhc |
topic | Detectors and Experimental Techniques Particle Physics - Experiment Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2642351 |
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