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Installation and performance of the 3rd Veto plane at the SND@LHC detector Open

D. Abbaneo, Giovanni Acampora, S. Ahmad, R. Albanese, A. Alexandrov , et al. · 2025

During 2022/2023 the optimal inefficiency of the Veto system of the SND@LHC detector was measured to be (7.8 ± 2.8) × 10 -8 . To reduce this inefficiency, a third Veto plane was installed during the 2023-2024 Year End Technical Stop. In ad…

Observation of Collider Neutrinos without Final State Muons with the SND@LHC Experiment Open

D. Abbaneo, S. Ahmad, R. Albanese, A. Alexandrov, F. Alicante , et al. · 2025

We report the observation of neutrino interactions without final state muons at the LHC, with a significance of 6.4σ. A dataset of proton-proton collisions at s=13.6 TeV collected by SND@LHC in 2022 and 2023 is used, corresponding to an i…

Irradiation tests of the OBDTv1 board at CHARM Open

G. Abbiendi, J. Alcaraz Maestre, B. Álvarez González, N. Amapane, C. Baldanza , et al. · 2025

The CMS Muon Drift Tube (DT) chambers require an upgrade of their on-detector electronics for operation in the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) due to increased radiation, occupancy and trigger rates. The new On-Detector Board for Drift Tubes …

Enhancing CMS data analyses using a distributed high throughput platform Open

T. Diotalevi, C. Battilana, Alessandra Fanfani, D. Bonacorsi · 2025

A flexible and dynamic environment capable of accessing distributed data and resources efficiently, is a key aspect for HEP data analysis, especially for the HL-LHC era. A quasi-interactive declarative solution, like ROOT RDataFrame, with …

An integrated flux-symmetric spectrometer-magnet system for the SND@LHC experiment upgrade Open

D. Abbaneo, S. Ahmad, R. Albanese, A. Alexandrov, F. Alicante , et al. · 2024

The proposed upgrade of the SND@LHC experiment for the High Luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) will strongly benefit from the presence of a magnetized region, allowing for muon momentum and charge measurement. In this paper we describe a…

Results and Perspectives from the First Two Years of Neutrino Physics at the LHC by the SND@LHC Experiment Open

D. Abbaneo, S. Ahmad, R. Albanese, A. Alexandrov, F. Alicante , et al. · 2024

After rapid approval and installation, the SND@LHC Collaboration was able to gather data successfully in 2022 and 2023. Neutrino interactions from νμs originating at the LHC IP1 were observed. Since muons constitute the major background fo…

SND@LHC: the scattering and neutrino detector at the LHC Open

Giovanni Acampora, C. Ahdida, R. Albanese, C. Albrecht, A. Alexandrov , et al. · 2024

SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in the pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < η < 8.4. The experiment is located 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction point, …

Measurement of the muon flux at the SND@LHC experiment Open

R. Albanese, A. Alexandrov, F. Alicante, A. Anokhina, Takashi Asada , et al. · 2024

Observation of Collider Muon Neutrinos with the SND@LHC Experiment Open

R. Albanese, A. Alexandrov, F. Alicante, A. Anokhina, Takashi Asada , et al. · 2023

We report the direct observation of muon neutrino interactions with the SND@LHC detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A dataset of proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=13.6 TeV collected by SND@LHC in 2022 is used, corresponding to an inte…

The Analytical Method algorithm for trigger primitives generation at the LHC Drift Tubes detector Open

G. Abbiendi, J. Alcaraz Maestre, A. Álvarez Fernández, B. Álvarez González, N. Amapane , et al. · 2023

Searches for long-lived charged particles in pp collisions at root s = 7 and 8 TeV Open

Y. Tu, Khachatryan, E. Paganis, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam , et al. · 2022

Deep Learning fast inference on FPGA for CMS Muon Level-1 Trigger studies Open

T. Diotalevi, Marco Lorusso, R. Travaglini, C. Battilana, D. Bonacorsi · 2021

With the advent of the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC), the instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is expected to increase up to $\\approx 7.5 \\cdot 10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}$. Therefore, new strategies for da…

Performance of the reconstruction and identification of high-momentum muons collected with CMS in 13 TeV data Open

C. Battilana · 2021

The CMS detector at the LHC has recorded events from proton-proton collisions, with muon momenta reaching up to 1.8 TeV in the collected dimuon samples. These high-momentum muons allow direct access to new regimes in physics beyond the sta…

Muon performance with CMS detector in Run-2 of LHC Open

C. Battilana · 2020

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is one of the two multi-purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and has a broad physics program. Many aspects of this program depend on our ability to trigger, reconstruction, and ide…

Upgrades of the CMS muon detectors: from Run 3 towards HL-LHC Open

C. Battilana · 2020

The present CMS muon system consists of three different detector technologies: drift tubes (DT) and cathode strip chambers (CSC) are used in the barrel and endcap regions of the spectrometer as offline tracking and triggering devices, wher…

Irradiation aging of the CMS Drift Tube muon detector Open

D. D. Redondo Ferrero, G. Abbiendi, J. Alcaraz Maestre, A. Álvarez Fernández, B. Álvarez González , et al. · 2020

Study of the effects of radiation on the CMS Drift Tubes Muon Detector for the HL-LHC Open

G. Abbiendi, J. Alcaraz Maestre, A. Álvarez Fernández, B. Álvarez González, N. Amapane , et al. · 2019

The CMS drift tubes (DT) muon detector, built for withstanding the LHC\nexpected integrated and instantaneous luminosities, will be used also in the\nHigh Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) at a 5 times larger instantaneous luminosity and,\nconsequen…

Measurement of neutral strange particle production in the underlying event in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV Open

Y. Tu, Khachatryan, E. Paganis, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam , et al. · 2019

Measurements are presented of the production of primary KS0 and Λ particles in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV in the region transverse to the leading charged-particle jet in each event. The average multiplicity and average scalar tra…

Measurement of the cross section and angular correlations for associated production of a Z boson with b hadrons in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV Open

Y. Tu, Khachatryan, E. Paganis, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam , et al. · 2019

A study of proton-proton collisions in which two b hadrons are produced in association with a Z boson is reported. The collisions were recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, for an integrated luminosi…

Study of the Effects of Radiation at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility on the CMS Drift Tube Muon Detector for HL-LHC Open

G. Abbiendi, J. Alcaraz Maestre, A. Álvarez Fernández, B. Álvarez González, N. Amapane , et al. · 2019

The CMS drift tubes (DT) muon detector, built for withstanding the LHC expected integrated and instantaneous luminosities, will be used also in the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) at a 5 times larger instantaneous luminosity and, consequently…

Development of Machine Learning based muon trigger algorithms for the Phase2 upgrade of the CMS detector Open

T. Diotalevi, D. Bonacorsi, C. Battilana, L. Guiducci · 2018

After the high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC, the muon chambers of CMS Barrel must cope with an increase in the number of interactions per bunch crossing. Therefore, new algorithmic techniques for data acquisition and processing will be ne…

Upgrade of the CMS muon trigger system in the barrel region Open

Dinyar Rabady, C. Battilana, R. Carlin, G. Codispoti, Marco Dallavalle , et al. · 2017

To maintain the excellent performance of the LHC during its Run-1 also in Run-2, the Level-1 Trigger of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment underwent a significant upgrade. One part of this upgrade was the re-organisation of the muon trig…

Radiation tests of real-sized prototype RPCs for the Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Muon System Open

T. J. Kim, B. Hong, T. J. Kim, Jun‐Won Kang, Min Ho Kang , et al. · 2016

We report on a systematic study of double-gap and four-gap phenolic resistive plate chambers (RPCs) for the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS muon system at high η. In the present study, we constructed real-sized double-gap and four-gap RPCs with…

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