PhD project: Measurement of collider neutrinos with SND@LHC

Supervisor: Prof. Mario Campanelli

The SND detector is the last approved experiment at the LHC. Located at about 400 meters from the interaction point, at a small angle with respect to the collision line of flight, it is a small detector made of hybrid nuclear emulsions and a magnetic spectrometer. After the commissioning run in 2022, the detector will take the first high-munimosity data in 2023, when most of the emulsion target will be ready. This will allow the first measurement of collider neutrinos, and the first measurement of the ratio of neutral to charged currents for very high-energy neutrnos. The UCL group is involved in machine-learning techniques to reconstruct tracks in the emulsion detector, and will be strongly involved in the analysis of neutrino interactions in the emulsions.

For more details please contact m.campanelli at ucl.ac.uk