Dear Colleague,
The Physical Review Journal Club will host an exclusive discussion with researchers from Forward Search Experiment (FASER), located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland to discuss their observation of neutrinos produced in colliding beams.
Neutrinos are among the most abundant particles in the Universe, but they rarely interact with matter: trillions pass through us every second, but most of us will never have even a single one interact with the matter in our bodies. Nonetheless, scientists can study these particles using high-intensity neutrino sources and detectors that are large enough to overcome the rarity of neutrino interactions. In this way, neutrinos have been observed from the Sun, from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere, from Earth's interior, from supernovae and other astrophysical objects, and from artificial sources such as nuclear reactors and particle accelerators in which a beam of particles hits a fixed target. But no one had ever detected neutrinos produced in colliding beams. This feat has now been achieved by the FASER team.
Florian Bernlochner (CERN) and colleagues sit down with the Physical Review Journal Club to discuss the team's exciting results, which were recently published in Physical Review Letters and summarized in Physics Magazine.
Bernlochner and colleagues will provide a short presentation of their experiment and observations, followed by a live question-and-answer session moderated by David Saltzberg, UCLA.
Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.
When:
September 21, 2023 11:00 a.m. ET
The paper under discussion:
First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC
Henso Abreu et al. (FASER Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031801 – Published 19 July 2023 | The session will be moderated by:
David Saltzberg, UCLA
The Physical Review Journal Club events are live, interactive events allowing early-career scientists to discuss the latest published advances in physics with leaders in the field. There will be a short presentation, followed by an interactive session where the participating author will answer your questions. This is a rare opportunity to engage with the authors of important research developments in an "Ask Me Anything" format. During this interactive portion of the Journal Club, participants will be allowed to have their camera and microphone on and are encouraged to join in open discussion with the presenters.
Please feel free to share this information with your institution and colleagues. Registration is free, and a video recording will be distributed to all registrants at the conclusion of the event. | | | |
No comments:
Post a Comment