Neutrinos detected in particle collider for first time at CERN

Amazing stuff!

"... Neutrinos are the most abundant fundamental particles that have mass in the universe and have been detected from many sources, including the sun and cosmic-ray interactions. They are among the least understood particles in the standard model of particle physics, with neutrinos produced within a particle collider having never been directly detected. ..."

From the abstract:

"FASERν at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to directly detect collider neutrinos for the first time and study their cross sections at TeV energies, where no such measurements currently exist. In 2018, a pilot detector employing emulsion films was installed in the far-forward region of ATLAS, 480 m from the interaction point, and collected 12.2 fb−1

 of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. We describe the analysis of this pilot run data and the observation of the first neutrino interaction candidates at the LHC. This milestone paves the way for high-energy neutrino measurements at current and future colliders."

Neutrinos detected in particle collider for first time at CERN - The Jerusalem Post For the first time, neutrinos produced in a particle accelerator have been detected.

First neutrino interaction candidates at the LHC (no public access)