Neutrinos were caught interacting at the Large Hadron Collider

Amazing stuff! However, it seems this is very early, preliminary research! Presumably, this short 7 page research paper was published with the intent to whet the appetite for the upcoming experiments at LHC.

Following is the entire Conclusions And Outlook chapter of the arxiv preprint article:

"A search for neutrino interactions is presented based on a small emulsion detector installed at the LHC in 2018. We observe the first candidate vertices consistent

with neutrino interactions at the LHC. A 2.7σ excess of neutrino-like signal above muon-induced backgrounds is measured. These results demonstrate FASERν’s ability to detect neutrinos at the LHC and pave the way for future collider neutrino experiments. We are currently preparing for data taking in LHC Run-3. With a deeper detector and lepton identification capability, FASERν will perform better than the pilot run detector. In addition, the FASER spectrometer will measure the muon flux, reducing uncertainties on background estimates. In the 2022–2024 run, we expect to collect ∼10,000 flavor-tagged charged-current neutrino interactions."

Neutrinos were caught interacting at the Large Hadron Collider | Science News

Here is the link to the underlying research article:

First neutrino interaction candidates at the LHC6197