*Reminder*

IIHE Seminar *today at 2pm* in the Sacton room!

See you numerously there,

Steven.


On 21/02/2024 12:00, Steven Lowette wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> A reminder for this seminar on Friday - looking forward to see you
> numerously.
>
> Note that this presentation will also contain an interesting connection
> to the CMS tracker.
>
> Kind regards,
> Steven.
>
>
> On 12/02/2024 07:56, Steven Lowette wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> On Feb 23 we will have an IIHE seminar from Prof. Giovanni de Lellis:
>> "The new era of collider neutrinos: the Scattering and Neutrino
>> Detector at the LHC"
>> at 14h00 in the Sacton seminar room (G.1.03)
>> (note the unusual time to accommodate travel constraints)
>>
>> Abstract and short bio are below; the event's agenda can be found here:
>> https://indico.iihe.ac.be/event/1916/
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Steven.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> Abstract:
>> SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment to perform
>> measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in a hitherto
>> unexplored pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < 𝜂 < 8.4, complementary to
>> all the other experiments at the LHC. The experiment is located 480 m
>> downstream of IP1 and the detector is composed of a hybrid system
>> based on an 800 kg target mass of tungsten plates, interleaved with
>> emulsion and electronic trackers, followed downstream by a calorimeter
>> and a muon system. The configuration allows efficiently distinguishing
>> between all three neutrino flavours, opening a unique opportunity to
>> probe physics of heavy flavour production at the LHC in the region
>> that is not accessible to ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. This region is of
>> particular interest for future circular colliders and for predictions
>> of very high-energy atmospheric neutrinos. The detector concept is
>> also well suited to searching for Feebly Interacting Particles via
>> signatures of scattering in the detector target. The first phase aims
>> at operating the detector throughout LHC Run 3. The experiment has
>> taken data since 2022 and has recently reported the first observation
>> of collider neutrinos. We shall review the first experimental results
>> and the plans for the upgrade to operate at the high-luminosity LHC. A
>> new era of collider neutrino physics has just started.
>>
>> Short Bio:
>> Giovanni De Lellis was born in Naples, Italy, in 1973. He graduated in
>> Physics summa cum laude in 1996 and in piano in 1997. He got his Ph.D.
>> in Physics in 2000 with a thesis on the “First observation of the
>> associated charm production in neutrino interactions”, where he
>> firstly observed this process in the data collected by the CHORUS
>> experiment at CERN. He is Full Professor of Experimental Physics at
>> the University of Naples.
>> After studying the charm production in neutrino interactions in
>> CHORUS, he moved to the OPERA experiment, designed to observe muon to
>> tau neutrino oscillations, for the first time in appearance mode with
>> a neutrino beam at CERN and the detector located in Gran Sasso
>> (Italy). In OPERA he acted as coordinator of the emulsion scanning
>> laboratories from 2008 till 2012, before being appointed Spokesperson.
>> He served this role from 2012 until the end of the experimental
>> program in 2019. In 2015 OPERA reported the observation of tau
>> neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam with a significance above
>> 5s, while in 2018 final results were given with more than 6s
>> significance and with the estimate of the oscillation parameters with
>> an improved accuracy. In 2018 he patented with members of his group in
>> Naples a method to achieve nanometric accuracy with optical
>> microscopy, getting the unprecedented resolution of 60 nm. In 2018, he
>> did some feasibility studies to build a detector and study neutrinos
>> for the first time produced by a collider, the LHC. These studies laid
>> the foundations of the "Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC”
>> experiment, with 180 scientists in 13 Countries and CERN. In 2020 he
>> was elected as the first Spokesperson of the experiment.
>>
>

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Steven Lowette
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