Physics Potential of an Experiment using LHC Neutrinos

Understand

Production of neutrinos is abundant at LHC.

• Flavour composition and energy reach of the neutrino flux from proton-proton collisions depend on the pseudorapidity $\eta$.
• At large $\eta$, energies can exceed the TeV, with a sizeable contribution of the $\tau$ flavour.
• A dedicated detector could intercept this intense neutrino flux in the forward direction, and measure the interaction cross section on nucleons in the unexplored energy range from a few hundred GeV to a few TeV.