Physics with TeV neutrinos at the LHC and beyond

01 May 2025
Seminars and colloquia
Time
Venue
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
Beecroft Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Speaker(s)

Professor Juan Rojo, Vrije U., Amsterdam

Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
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Abstract

Proton-proton collisions at the LHC produce an immense flux 
of high-energy (up to several TeV) neutrinos along the beam (forward) 
direction. The breakthrough observation of LHC neutrinos by FASER and 
SND@LHC in March 2023, followed by the first neutrino cross-section 
measurements at the TeV scale and the first data-driven constraints on 
the LHC neutrino fluxes in 2024, open many exciting opportunities in 
particle physics. In this talk I present the unprecedented reach of 
current (FASER, SND@LHC) and future (FASER2, AdvSND, FLArE) forward LHC 
neutrino experiments for studies of SM and BSM physics, focusing on 
their impact for QCD and neutrino physics. I demonstrate that these 
experiments effectively extend the CERN infrastructure with an 
Neutrino-Ion Collider, enabling novel opportunities to pin down hadronic 
structure, opening a window to the gluon content  of the proton in 
regions outside the coverage of any other experiment, and providing the 
first laboratory-based validation of cross-sections relevant for 
high-energy astroparticle studies. I also discuss the current status of 
Monte Carlo event generators for high-energy neutrino DIS. Finally, if 
time allows, I will present the physics potential of a FASER-like 
detector operating in the context of a 100 TeV proton collider such as 
the FCC-hh.