Thursday, November 19, 2020, 16:00
online only
Anna Sfyrla, Geneva University
Abstract:
The FASER experiment is a new small and inexpensive experiment that is
being placed 480 meters downstream of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN
LHC. The experiment will shed light on currently unexplored phenomena,
having the potential to make a revolutionary discovery. FASER is
designed to capture decays of exotic particles, produced in the very
forward region, out of the ATLAS detector acceptance. FASERnu, a FASER
sub-detector, is designed to detect collider neutrinos for the first
time and study their properties. This talk will present the physics
prospects, the detector design, and the construction progress of FASER.
The experiment is currently being installed and will take data during
the LHC Run-3.