https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14048-6
Review
Scientific program for the Forward Physics Facility
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Pasteura 7, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, 10468, Bronx, NY, USA
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Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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Department of Physics, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku, 263-8522, Chiba, Japan
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Kyushu University, Nishi-ku, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan
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Department of Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3RH, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, 15217, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, 92697-4575, Irvine, CA, USA
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, 11973, Upton, NY, USA
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Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, 52246, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, Liverpool, UK
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RH, Brighton, UK
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nikhef Theory Group, Science Park 105, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Department of Physics, Penn State University, 16802, University Park, PA, USA
Received:
14
November
2024
Accepted:
8
March
2025
Published online:
17
April
2025
The recent direct detection of neutrinos at the LHC has opened a new window on high-energy particle physics and highlighted the potential of forward physics for groundbreaking discoveries. In the last year, the physics case for forward physics has continued to grow, and there has been extensive work on defining the Forward Physics Facility and its experiments to realize this physics potential in a timely and cost-effective manner. Following a 2-page Executive Summary, we first present the status of the FPF, beginning with the FPF’s unique potential to shed light on dark matter, new particles, neutrino physics, QCD, and astroparticle physics. We then summarize the current designs for the Facility and its experiments, FASER2, FASER
2, FORMOSA, and FLArE.
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