1. Observation of Collider Muon Neutrinos with the SND@LHC Experiment.
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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 KY, 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, and Zamora Saa J
- Abstract
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 sqrt[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.
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- 2023
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