Observation of Collider Muon Neutrinos with the SND@LHC Experiment
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2023-07
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en
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American Physical Society
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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 νμ interaction candidate events remain with an estimated background of 0.086 events, yielding a significance of about 7 standard deviations for the observed νμ signal. © 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society.
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SND@LHC Detector, Hadron Collider, Neutrinos Muónicos, Neutrons, Particle Detectors, Tellurium Compounds, Direct Observations, Electronic Component, Integrated Luminosity, Large Hadron Collider, Large-Hadron Colliders, LHC Detectors, LHC Experiments, Muon Neutrino, Neutrino Interactions, Proton Proton Collisions
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Physical Review Letters. Volume 131, Issue 3. 21 July 2023. Article number 031802
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.031802