Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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FASER, or the Forward Search Experiment, recently observed the first collider #neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider at #CERN. The observation had a statistical significance of roughly 16 sigma, far exceeding 5 sigma, the threshold for discovery in #particlephysics.

Watch an animation of how the FASER detector works and hear from our experts, Jamie Boyd from the UK and Hidetoshi Otono from Japan, working on the experiment.

Find out more: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/physics/new-lhc-experiments-enter-uncharted-territory

Contributors
Producer & Editor: Chetna Krishna
Animations by: Maximilien Brice and Piotr Traczyk