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Un esperimento con
neutrini del TeV prodotti da LHC

      CdS INFN Bologna , 5/6/2019

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UN ESPERIMENTO CON NEUTRINI DEL TEV PRODOTTI DA LHC - CDS INFN BOLOGNA , 5/6/2019 - INFN ...
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     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
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     —> neutrinos reach TeV energies at large η

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     —> LHC is a unique laboratory for measuring for the first
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     time the νN Xsections in the 500 GeV - 2 TeV range                                         500

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                                                                      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
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                                                   Mean x      6.135
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Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP),
                                                                           The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

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                                                                 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

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                          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].
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                                                             is no artificial likely
                                                                              neutrinotobeam
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                                                above,  IceCube used atmospheric and astrophysi-                      10   1

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                                                                      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-
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                                                                                                                                      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

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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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