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FORMOSA
The FPF provides an ideal location for a next-generation experiment to search for BSM particles that have an electrical charge that is a small fraction of that of the electron. Although the value of this fraction can vary over several orders of magnitude, we generically refer to these new states as “millicharged” particles (mCPs). Since…
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FLArE
A modularized liquid argon time projection detector (FLArE) is under development for the suite of detectors for the FPF. The technical design of such a detector is helped by the considerable investment in liquid noble gas detectors over the last decade (ICARUS, MicroBooNE, SBND, ProtoDUNE, and various components of DUNE). A liquid argon detector offers…
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FASERv2
FASERν2 is a 20-ton neutrino detector located on the LOS, a much larger successor to the FASERν subdetector in the FASER experiment. An emulsion-based detector will identify heavy flavor particles produced in neutrino interactions, including tau leptons and charm and beauty particles. FASERν2 can perform precision tau neutrino measurements and heavy flavor physics studies, testing…
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FASER2
FASER2 is a large-volume detector comprised of a spectrometer, electromagentic and hadronic calorimeters, veto detectors, and a muon detector. FASER2 is designed for sensitivity to a wide variety of models of BSM physics and for precise muon reconstruction. It builds on positive experience gained from the successful operation of the existing FASER detector, a much…
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Astroparticle Physics
There is a tripartite synergy between the science reach of the Forward Physics Facility (FPF) and astroparticle physics. Firstly, measurements at the FPF will probe high-energy hadronic interactions in the far-forward region. These measurements will improve the modeling of high-energy hadronic interactions in the atmosphere, reduce the associated uncertainties of air shower measurements, and thereby…
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QCD
Forward neutrinos produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC and detected by the LHC experiments offer a broad palette of new avenues to further our understanding of the strong nuclear force, quantum chromodynamics (QCD). QCD studies with LHC neutrinos can be classifiedinto effects associated to neutrino production and those associated with neutrino scattering at the…
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Neutrinos
The LHC is the highest energy particle collider built to date and it is therefore also the source of the most energetic neutrinos created in a controlled laboratory environment. Indeed, the LHC produces intense, strongly collimated, and highly energetic beams of both neutrinos and anti- neutrinos and all three flavors in the forward direction. Although…
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New Particle Searches
While traditional searches for BSM physics at the LHC focus on heavy and relatively strongly interacting states, new particles might also be light, but very weakly interacting. Such light, feebly-interacting particles indeed naturally appear in many models of new physics designed to address the most significant outstanding questions in particle physics, including the nature of…
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Location
Several possible locations for the FPF around the ATLAS and CMS interaction points were studied by the CERN civil engineering team. After taking into account technical, scientific, and resource considerations, the site selected is a dedicated standalone new cavern situated 617 m to the west of the ATLAS interaction point (IP1). The site is in…