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!2 X Section of Energetic Neutrinos (XSEN) project G.M.Dallavalle, G.De Lellis, A. Di Crescenzo, D. Lazic, F.L.Navarria, Z.Szillasi • http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06564 “Physics Potential of an Experiment using LHC Neutrinos” March 5, 2019 (subm. to J. of Phys. G) • https://edms.cern.ch/ui/file/2022399/1.0/LHC-XSEN-EC-0002-1-0.pdf September 5, 2018 • http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04413 April 12, 2018 • https://edms.cern.ch/ui/file/1908776/1.0/LHC-XSEN-EC-0001-1-0.pdf March 19, 2018. LHC IP1 and IP5 are intense sources of 2500 PYTHIA MonteCarlo neutrinos (all flavours, tau included) 2000 b, c production GeV 1500 E —> neutrinos reach TeV energies at large η neutrino —> LHC is a unique laboratory for measuring for the first 1000 time the νN Xsections in the 500 GeV - 2 TeV range 500 Favorable site exists with low 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 neutrino |η| machine backgrounds F N VN LHC —> studied sites Very Near, Near, Far, Very Far from IP5, IP1 CMS IP —> VF qualifies as host for a neutrino detector: VF at junction of the TI18 unused tunnel with LHC —> TI18 has similar features to TI12 (FASER) at opposite end of IP1: advantage of LHC ATLAS IP magnetic bend and of a 30 m layer of rock LHC
dN/dE_nu vs eta Noacc Noacc_ENUvsETANU GeV Entries 147230 Mean x 6.135 3 Mean y 176.6 10 Std Dev x 0.9412 Std Dev y 247.7 10 2 10 5 6 7 8 9 10 abs_eta
Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA XSEN project !3 3 Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA (Dated: January 12, 2019) Detector: Neutrinos are key to probing the deep structure of matter and the high-energy Universe. Yet, until —> low mass recently, (3 tonstheir max): high energy interactions had onlyneutrinos been measured favoured since at laboratory νΝ up energies Χsection grows to about 350 GeV. :1711.11043v2 [astro-ph.HE] 12 Jan 2019 An opportunity to measure their interactions at higher energies opened up with the detection of proportionally high-energy to E neutrinos in IceCube, partially of astrophysical origin. Scattering o↵ matter inside the —> 2 sectionsEarth covering η ranges a↵ects the with distribution different of their average arrival directions energy — from this, we( extract 0.7, 1.2the TeV ) neutrino-nucleon —> slightly offcross the section at energies from 18 TeV to 2 PeV, in four energy bins, in spite of uncertainties in the beam axis prolongation from IP1 : to favour neutrinos from b,c (5% neutrino flux. Using six years of public IceCube High-Energy Starting Events, we explicitly show tau neutrinos) for the first time that the energy dependence of the cross section above 18 TeV agrees with the • NO modifications to TI18 (checked predicted softer-than-linear dependence,with andCERN reaffirm civil engineering) the absence p the cross section rise sharply, up to a center-of-mass energy s ⇡ 1 TeV. of new physics that would make —> nuclear emulsions: • efficient for vertex reconstruction (tau decay) Bustamante M., Connolly A., arXiv:1711.11043, Jan. 12, 2019 •ble,exposure Introduction.— Neutrino interactions, though fee- and analysis proved to stand are important for particle physics and astrophysics. PILOT projection 105 provide precise2 tests tracks/cm (i.e. of ~30the/fb in TI18) 100 RUN3 projection 1] They Standard Model [1–3], •probes modularof newblocks, easy and physics [4–6], to install windows to otherwise nucleon veiled regions of the Universe. Yet, at neutrino energies DIS Experiment: above 350 GeV there had been no measurement of their interactions. This changed recently when the IceCube accelerator data 1 > —> Collaboration found measurement in that LHC theRUN3 neutrino-nucleon cross sec- cm2 GeV tion from 6.3 to 980 TeV agrees with predictions [7]. • machine Because therebackgrounds is no artificial likely neutrinotobeam increase at a TeV ¯ with and HL-LHC above, IceCube used atmospheric and astrophysi- 10 1 • T2K (Fe) 14 GGM-SPS 81 calwith 150 /fb, neutrinos, 1.5 tons, the latter can by discovered record them upuptotoa 2000 few 38 T2K (CH) 14 GGM-PS 79 PeV [26, 31–38]. Refs. [4, 6, 39–42] showed that, because HE neutrino interactions, up to 100 ν_tau IceCube neutrinos interact significantly with matter in- [10 T2K (C) 13 ArgoNeuT 14 IHEP-ITEP 79 IHEP-JINR 96 —> PILOT RUN side Earth, in distribution their 2021 in energy and arrival di- ArgoNeuT 12 MINOS 10 CC /E ANL 79 NOMAD 08 astrophysical data • 0.4 tons, rection carries25 /fb, 1.2 about information TeV , ~ 100 HE neutrino-nucleon ν cross BEBC 79 NuTeV 06 N BNL 82 SciBooNE 11 • sections, which, like IceCube [7], we extract. characterisation of thethe However, Ref. [7] extracted background cross section in a sin- CCFR 97 CDHS 87 SKAT 79 IC HESE showers 17 (avg. of , ¯ ) • set-up gle, and tune wide energy emulsion bin, so its energy handling dependence in that 10 2 10 1 1 101 102 103 104 105 106 infrastructure range andAanalysis remains untested. significant deviation from the Neutrino energy E [GeV] predicted softer-than-linear dependence could signal the presence of new physics, so we extract the cross section
PROSSIMI PASSI: PERCORSI IN PARALLELO Percorso 1 Percorso 2 (solo PILOT) Percorso 3 INFN • EoI sottoposta a LHCC Chair • EoI sottoposta a LHCC • EoI da sottoporre a Chair e a LMC Chair Presidente CSN1 • in discussione nella sessione chiusa di Giugno • presentazione nella • presentazione? richieste sessione di Giugno del per PILOT in DOT1 • assegnazione dei referees TREX e discussione • LoI da sottoporre entro metà • se PILOT approvato, Luglio (allargare collaborazione, • se green light, apertura sigla? Oppure garantire le risorse) discussione nella dopo approvazione sessione di Giugno di LHCC? a Settembre? LMC e decisione • discussione coi referee, presentazione e decisione nella sessione di Settembre Percorso 4 • se progetto approvato, TP per la • Fondi europei? sessione di Novembre e decisione • decisione finale del Research Board a inizio 2020 !4
le ISSUEs XSEN WBS 2019-2021 XSEN WBS 2019 2019 2019 2020 2020 2020 2020 2021 2021 2021 2021 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OK by cern civil engineering Experiment design LOI submission (early,final) to LHCC/LMC Collaboration setting-up fund raising investigate EU funds Technical Proposal submission (early,final) CERN green light by ResearchBoard find emulsion producer order emulsions for 2021 run emulsion production R&D analysis tools set-up development infrastructure produce detector support mechanics install detector LHC recommissioning and Run3 start 2021 emulsion development (first, second batch) brick layout Collaborazione in via di formazione detector depth emulsion procurement XSEN è un micro-OPERA; la sezione emulsion development analysis aveva il Know-how, e le attrezzature
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