{"id":161810,"date":"2023-04-09T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/exploring-the-dark-matters-of-physics-large-hadron-collider-enters-uncharted-territory"},"modified":"2023-04-09T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T03:22:23","slug":"exploring-the-dark-matters-of-physics-large-hadron-collider-enters-uncharted-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/exploring-the-dark-matters-of-physics-large-hadron-collider-enters-uncharted-territory","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Dark Matters of Physics: Large Hadron Collider Enters Uncharted Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exploring-the-dark-matters-of-physics-large-hadron-collider-enters-uncharted-territory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The first observation of collider neutrinos at the LHC paves the way for exploring new physics scenarios.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/science-made-simple-what-are-neutrinos\/>neutrinos<\/a> are produced abundantly in collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (<a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/large-hadron-collider\/>LHC<\/a>), until now no neutrinos produced in such a way had been detected. Within just nine months of the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/large-hadron-collider-successfully-restarted-at-record-energy-revving-up-the-search-for-dark-matter\/>start of LHC Run 3<\/a> and the beginning of its measurement campaign, the <a href=https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/experiments\/faser>FASER<\/a> collaboration changed this picture by announcing its first observation of collider neutrinos at this year\u2019s electroweak session of the Rencontres de Moriond. In particular, FASER observed muon neutrinos and candidate events of electron neutrinos. \u201cOur statistical significance is roughly 16 sigma, far exceeding <a href=https:\/\/home.cern\/resources\/faqs\/five-sigma>5 sigma<\/a>, the threshold for a discovery in particle physics,\u201d explains FASER\u2019s co-spokesperson Jamie Boyd.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its observation of neutrinos at a particle collider, FASER presented results on searches for dark photons. With a null result, the collaboration was able to set limits on previously unexplored parameter space and began to exclude regions motivated by <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-dark-matter\/>dark matter<\/a>. FASER aims to collect up to ten times more data over the coming years, allowing more searches and neutrino measurements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first observation of collider neutrinos at the LHC paves the way for exploring new physics scenarios. Although neutrinos are produced abundantly in collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), until now no neutrinos produced in such a way had been detected. Within just nine months of the start of LHC Run 3 and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}