| Title: |
Observation of Collider Muon Neutrinos with the SND@LHC Experiment |
| Authors: |
Albanese, R; Alexandrov, A; Alicante, F; Anokhina, A; Asada, T; Battilana, C; Bay, A; Betancourt, C; Biswas, R; Blanco Castro, A; Bogomilov, M; Bonacorsi, D; Bonivento, WM; Bordalo, P; Boyarsky, A; Buontempo, S; Campanelli, M; Camporesi, T; Canale, V; Castro, A; Centanni, D; Cerutti, F; Chernyavskiy, M; Choi, K-Y; Cholak, S; Cindolo, F; Climescu, M; Conaboy, AP; Dallavalle, GM; Davino, D; de Bryas, PT; De Lellis, G; De Magistris, M; De Roeck, A; De Rújula, A; De Serio, M; De Simone, D; Di Crescenzo, A; Donà, R; Durhan, O; Fabbri, F; Fedotovs, F; Ferrillo, M; Ferro-Luzzi, M; Fini, RA; Fiorillo, A; Fresa, R; Funk, W; Garay Walls, FM; Golovatiuk, A; Golutvin, A; Graverini, E; Guler, AM; Guliaeva, V; Haefeli, GJ; Helo Herrera, JC; van Herwijnen, E; Iengo, P; Ilieva, S; Infantino, A; Iuliano, A; Jacobsson, R; Kamiscioglu, C; Kauniskangas, AM; Khalikov, E; Kim, SH; Kim, YG; Klioutchnikov, G; Komatsu, M; Konovalova, N; Kovalenko, S; Kuleshov, S; Lacker, HM; Lantwin, O; Lasagni Manghi, F; Lauria, A; Lee, KY; Lee, KS; Lo Meo, S; Loschiavo, VP; Marcellini, S; Margiotta, A; Mascellani, A; Miano, A; Mikulenko, A; Montesi, MC; Navarria, FL; Ogawa, S; Okateva, N; Ovchynnikov, M; Paggi, G; Park, BD; Pastore, A; Perrotta, A; Podgrudkov, D; Polukhina, N; Prota, A; Quercia, A; Ramos, S; Reghunath, A; Roganova, T; Ronchetti, F; Rovelli, T; Ruchayskiy, O; Ruf, T; Sabate Gilarte, M; Samoilov, M; Scalera, V; Schneider, O; Sekhniaidze, G; Serra, N; Shaposhnikov, M; Shevchenko, V; Shchedrina, T; Shchutska, L; Shibuya, H; Simone, S; Siroli, GP; Sirri, G; Soares, G; Soto Sandoval, OJ; Spurio, M; Starkov, N; Timiryasov, I; Tioukov, V; Tramontano, F; Trippl, C; Ursov, E; Ustyuzhanin, A; Vankova-Kirilova, G; Verguilov, V; Viegas Guerreiro Leonardo, N; Vilela, C; Visone, C; Wanke, R; Yaman, E; Yazici, C; Yoon, CS; Zaffaroni, E; Zamora Saa, J; SND@LHC Collaboration |
| Source: |
Physical Review Letters , 131 (3) , Article 031802. (2023) |
| Publisher Information: |
American Physical Society (APS) |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
University College London: UCL Discovery |
| Description: |
We report the direct observation of muon neutrino interactions with the SND@LHC detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A dataset of proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13.6 TeV collected by SND@LHC in 2022 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.8 fb − 1 . The search is based on information from the active electronic components of the SND@LHC detector, which covers the pseudorapidity region of 7.2 < η < 8.4 , inaccessible to the other experiments at the collider. Muon neutrino candidates are identified through their charged-current interaction topology, with a track propagating through the entire length of the muon detector. After selection cuts, 8 ν μ interaction candidate events remain with an estimated background of 0.086 events, yielding a significance of about 7 standard deviations for the observed ν μ signal. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174761/1/PhysRevLett.131.031802.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174761/ |
| Availability: |
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174761/1/PhysRevLett.131.031802.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174761/ |
| Rights: |
open |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.8CD1AEDC |
| Database: |
BASE |