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SUMMARY:FASER: Commissioning of a not-so-large LHC experiment in search fo
 r new physics in far corner - Dr Claire Antel (University of Geneva)
DTSTART:20211109T160000Z
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CONTACT:William Fawcett
DESCRIPTION:FASER is a newly installed experiment at the LHC designed to l
 ook for new forward long-lived particles\, produced in proton collisions a
 t Point 1\, and decaying several hundred meters downstream. The detector c
 omponents were commissioned in a surface lab in 2020 and the full detector
  was installed in the tunnel in March 2021. The experiment is now set to g
 o live at the start of LHC Run 3 and collect data 24 hours a day for sever
 al years. During data taking there will be no control room with dedicated 
 shifters onsite to watch over the run continuously. Thus the TDAQ system\,
  monitoring and automatic alerts have been tirelessly stress-tested since 
 installation while collecting on the order of 100 million noise and cosmic
 -ray events. During the seminar\, I will explain what FASER aims to do as 
 well as what it took to fully commission this small detector at a large co
 llider\, the custom software infrastructure we built and the unexpected ch
 allenges we faced.
LOCATION:https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSj
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