The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC

authored by
Jonathan L. Feng, Felix Kling, Mary Hall Reno, Juan Rojo, Dennis Soldin, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Jamie Boyd, Ahmed Ismail, Lucian Harland-Lang, Kevin J. Kelly, Vishvas Pandey, Sebastian Trojanowski, Yu Dai Tsai, Jean Marco Alameddine, Takeshi Araki, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Kento Asai, Alessandro Bacchetta, Kincso Balazs, Alan J. Barr, Michele Battistin, Jianming Bian, Caterina Bertone, Weidong Bai, Pouya Bakhti, A. Baha Balantekin, Basabendu Barman, Brian Batell, Martin Bauer, Brian Bauer, Mathias Becker, Asher Berlin, Enrico Bertuzzo, Atri Bhattacharya, Marco Bonvini, Stewart T. Boogert, Alexey Boyarsky, Joseph Bramante, Vedran Brdar, Adrian Carmona, David W. Casper, Francesco Giovanni Celiberto, Francesco Cerutti, Grigorios Chachamis, Garv Chauhan, Matthew Citron, Emanuele Copello, Jean Pierre Corso, Luc Darmé, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Neda Darvishi, Arindam Das, Giovanni De Lellis, Albert De Roeck, Jordy De Vries, Hans P. Dembinski, Sergey Demidov, Patrick Deniverville, Peter B. Denton, Frank F. Deppisch, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Antonia Di Crescenzo, Keith R. Dienes, Milind V. Diwan, Herbi K. Dreiner, Yong Du, Bhaskar Dutta, Pit Duwentäster, Lucie Elie, Sebastian A.R. Ellis, Rikard Enberg, Yasaman Farzan, Max Fieg, Ana Luisa Foguel, Patrick Foldenauer, Saeid Foroughi-Abari, Jean François Fortin, Alexander Friedland, Elina Fuchs, Michael Fucilla, Kai Gallmeister, Alfonso Garcia, Carlos A.García Canal, Maria Vittoria Garzelli, Rhorry Gauld, Sumit Ghosh, Anish Ghoshal, Stephen Gibson, Francesco Giuli, Victor P. Gonçalves, Dmitry Gorbunov, Srubabati Goswami, Silvia Grau, Julian Y. Günther, Marco Guzzi, Andrew Haas, Timo Hakulinen, Steven P. Harris, Julia Harz, Juan Carlos Helo Herrera, Christopher S. Hill, Martin Hirsch, Timothy J. Hobbs, Stefan Höche, Andrzej Hryczuk, Fei Huang, Tomohiro Inada, Angelo Infantino, Ameen Ismail, Richard Jacobsson, Sudip Jana, Yu Seon Jeong, Tomas Jezo, Yongsoo Jho, Krzysztof Jodłowski, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Timo J. Kärkkäinen, Cynthia Keppel, Jongkuk Kim, Michael Klasen, Spencer R. Klein, Pyungwon Ko, Dominik Köhler, Masahiro Komatsu, Karol Kovařík, Suchita Kulkarni, Jason Kumar, Karan Kumar, Jui Lin Kuo, Frank Krauss, Aleksander Kusina, Maxim Laletin, Chiara Le Roux, Seung J. Lee, Hye Sung Lee, Helena Lefebvre, Jinmian Li, Shuailong Li, Yichen Li, Wei Liu, Zhen Liu, Mickael Lonjon, Kun Feng Lyu, Rafal MacIula, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Mohammad R. Masouminia, Josh McFayden, Oleksii Mikulenko, Mohammed M.A. Mohammed, Kirtimaan A. Mohan, Jorge G. Morfín, Ulrich Mosel, Martin Mosny, Khoirul F. Muzakka, Pavel Nadolsky, Toshiyuki Nakano, Saurabh Nangia, Angel Navascues Cornago, Laurence J. Nevay, Pierre Ninin, Emanuele R. Nocera, Takaaki Nomura, Rui Nunes, Nobuchika Okada, Fred Olness, John Osborne, Hidetoshi Otono, Maksym Ovchynnikov, Alessandro Papa, Junle Pei, Guillermo Peon, Gilad Perez, Luke Pickering, Simon Plätzer, Ryan Plestid, Tanmay Kumar Poddar, Pablo Quílez, Mudit Rai, Meshkat Rajaee, Digesh Raut, Peter Reimitz, Filippo Resnati, Wolfgang Rhode, Peter Richardson, Adam Ritz, Hiroki Rokujo, Leszek Roszkowski, Tim Ruhe, Richard Ruiz, Marta Sabate-Gilarte, Alexander Sandrock, Ina Sarcevic, Subir Sarkar, Osamu Sato, Christiane Scherb, Ingo Schienbein, Holger Schulz, Pedro Schwaller, Sergio J. Sciutto, Dipan Sengupta, Lesya Shchutska, Takashi Shimomura, Federico Silvetti, Kuver Sinha, Torbjörn Sjöstrand, Jan T. Sobczyk, Huayang Song, Jorge F. Soriano, Yotam Soreq, Anna Stasto, David Stuart, Shufang Su, Wei Su, Antoni Szczurek, Zahra Tabrizi, Yosuke Takubo, Marco Taoso, Brooks Thomas, Pierre Thonet, Douglas Tuckler, Agustin Sabio Vera, Heinz Vincke, K. N. Vishnudath, Zeren Simon Wang, Martin W. Winkler, Wenjie Wu, Keping Xie, Xun Jie Xu, Tevong You, Ji Young Yu, Jiang-Hao Yu, Korinna Zapp, Yongchao Zhang, Yue Zhang, Guanghui Zhou, Renata Zukanovich Funchal, Rabah Abdul Khalek, Di An, Jason Arakawa, Gianluigi Arduini, Rahool Kumar Barman, John F. Beacom, Florian Bernlochner, Mary Bishai, Tobias Boeckh, Daniela Bortoletto, Antonio Boveia, Lydia Brenner, Stanley J. Brodsky, Carsten Burgard, José Eliel Camargo-Molina, Tancredi Carli, Spencer Chang, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Xin Chen, Thomas Y. Chen, Cheng Wei Chiang, Andrea Coccaro, Timothy Cohen, Alan Coleman, Ruben Conceição, Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, Monica D'Onofrio, Hooman Davoudiasl, Armando Di Matteo, Eleonora Di Valentino, Radu Dobre, Caterina Doglioni, Luis M.Domingues Mendes, María Teresa Dova, Michael A. Duvernois, Andreas Ekstedt, Eckhard Elsen, Alberto Escalante Del Valle, Rouven Essig, Glennys R. Farrar, Anatoli Fedynitch, Deion Fellers, Elena Firu, Iftah Galon, Isabel Garcia Garcia, Gustavo Gil Da Silveira, Carlo Giunti, Steven Goldfarb, Dorival Goncalves, Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla, Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, A. Murat Guler, Claire Gwenlan, Carl Gwilliam, Francis Halzen, Tao Han, Andreas Haungs, Julian Heeck, Martin Hentschinski, Shih Chieh Hsu, Zhen Hu, B. Todd Huffman, Giuseppe Iacobucci, Jose I. Illana, Antonio Insolia, Mustapha Ishak, Joerg Jaeckel, Daniel Kabat, Enrique Kajomovitz Ken, Takumi Kanai, Teppei Katori, Valery Khoze, Piotr Kotko, Graham D. Kribs, Susanne Kuehn, Saumyen Kundu, Claire Lee, Agnieszka Leszczynska, Lingfeng Li, Ki Lie, Benjamin Lillard, Huey Wen Lin, Steven Lowette, Danny Marfatia, Francisco Martínez López, Rafal Masełek, Manuel Masip, Konstantin Matchev, Thomas McCauley, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Hiroaki Menjo, Mç adÇ lina Mihaela Miloi, Lino Miramonti, Gopolang Mohlabeng, Stefano Moretti, Théo Moretti, Pran Nath, Francesco L. Navarria, Alina Tania Neagu, Anna Nelles, Friedemann Neuhaus, Carlos Nunez, J. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, Kazuaki Okui, Angela V. Olinto, Yasar Onel, Carlos Pérez De Los Heros, Carlo Pandini, Roman Pasechnik, Thomas C. Paul, Brian A. Petersen, Tanguy Pierog, Tilman Plehn, Matthias Plum, Karolos Potamianos, Titi Preda, Markus Prim, Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, Laura Reina, Maximilian Reininghaus, Thomas G. Rizzo, Tania Robens, Elisa Ruiz-Chóliz, Kristof Schmieden, Gunar Schnell, Matthias Schott, Frank G. Schroeder, Anna Sfyrla, Yael Shadmi, Ian Shipsey, Savannah R. Shively, Ian M. Shoemaker, Rajeev Singh, A. Sousa, Marco Stein Muzio, John Stupak, Indara Suarez, Tim M.P. Tait, Xerxes Tata, Shafeeq Rahman Thottoli, Okumura Toranosuke, Eric Torrence, Diego F. Torres, Zoltán Trócsányi, Alessandro Tricoli, Michael Unger, Carlos Vázquez Sierra, Mauro Valli, Tonia Venters, Stef Verpoest, Cristovao Vilela, Benedikt Vormwald, Lian Tao Wang, Michael Waterbury, Gordon Watts, Stephen M. West, Tao Xu, Emin Yüksel, Barbara Yaeggy, Chun Sil Yoon, Tianlu Yuan, Ion Sorin Zgura
Abstract

High energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large number of particles along the beam collision axis, outside of the acceptance of existing LHC experiments. The proposed Forward Physics Facility (FPF), to be located several hundred meters from the ATLAS interaction point and shielded by concrete and rock, will host a suite of experiments to probe standard model (SM) processes and search for physics beyond the standard model (BSM). In this report, we review the status of the civil engineering plans and the experiments to explore the diverse physics signals that can be uniquely probed in the forward region. FPF experiments will be sensitive to a broad range of BSM physics through searches for new particle scattering or decay signatures and deviations from SM expectations in high statistics analyses with TeV neutrinos in this low-background environment. High statistics neutrino detection will also provide valuable data for fundamental topics in perturbative and non-perturbative QCD and in weak interactions. Experiments at the FPF will enable synergies between forward particle production at the LHC and astroparticle physics to be exploited. We report here on these physics topics, on infrastructure, detector, and simulation studies, and on future directions to realize the FPF's physics potential.

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Institute of Theoretical Physics
QuantumFrontiers
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Type
Article
Journal
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Volume
50
ISSN
0305-4616
Publication date
03.2023
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.05090 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ac865e (Access: Open)