Momentum Measurement of Charged Particles in FASER's Emulsion Detector at the LHC

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Authors: Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai, S. Alonso Monsalve, John Anders, Emma Kate Anderson, Claire Antel, A. Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Jeremy Atkinson, F. U. Bernlochner, Tobias Boeckh, Eliot Bornand
+88 more J. Boyd, L. Brenner, A. M. Burger, F. Cadoux, R. Cardella, D. W. Casper, Charlotte Cavanagh, S. Chen, Xin Chen (14149), X.H. Cheng, Kohei Chinone, Dhruv Chouhan, Andrea Coccaro, Stephane Débieux, Ansh Desai, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Radu Dobre, M. D’Onofrio, Sinead Eley, Yannick Favre, Jonathan Lee Feng, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio, Didier Ferrere, Max H. Fieg, Wissal Filali, Elena Firu, Haruhi Fujimori, Edward Karl Galantay, Ali Garabaglu, Stephen Gibson, S. González-Sevilla, Yuri Gornushkin, Yotam Granov, Jinjing Gu, Carl Gwilliam, Elie Hammou, Daiki Hayakawa, Michael Holzbock, S.-C. Hsu, Zhen Hu, GIUSEPPE IACOBUCCI, Tomohiro Inada, L. Iodice, Sune Jakobsen, Cesar Jesus-Valls, Arash Jofrehei, Hans Ludwig Joos, E. Kajomovitz, Takumi Kanai, Kawahara, Hiroaki, Alex Keyken, Felix Kling, Daniela Köck, P. Kontaxakis, Jelle Koorn, U. Köse, Peter Krack, S. Kuehn, T. Kugathasan, Sebastian Laudage, L. J. Levinson, Botao Li, Jinfeng Liu, Yi Liu, Margaret S. Lutz, Jack Cameron MacDonald, J. Mahlstedt, Toni Mäkelä, Anna Mascellani, Lawson McCoy, Josh A. McFayden, Andrea Pizarro Medina, Théo Moretti, K. Moriyama, Toshiyuki Nakano, Laurie Nevay, Motoya Nonaka, Yuma Ohara, Ken Ohashi, K Okui, Hidetoshi Otono, Lorenzo PAOLOZZI, Annabelle Parry, Pawan Pawan, B. A. Petersen, Titi Preda, Markus Prim, Junkai Qin
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Abstract

We present a momentum measurement method based on multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) in the FASER$ν$ emulsion detector. The measurement of charged-particle momenta is essential for studying neutrino interactions in the TeV energy range at the FASER experiment. This method exploits the sub-micron spatial resolution and long tracking length of the FASER$ν$ detector, enabling momentum determination from a few GeV up to a few TeV. The performance was evaluated using Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulations and validated with muon test beam data in the momentum range 100-300 GeV. As a first probe of the method for higher momentum muons, background muons recorded by the FASER$ν$ detector were examined, showing reconstructed momenta consistent with expectations from their angular spread.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Particle Detector Development and Performance Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Neutrino Physics Research

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Journal / source
HAL
Publication date
19 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint