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The LHC produces high energy and intense fluxes of all flavors of
neutrinos and anti-neutrinos in the forward region. Ten-tonne-scale
experiments at the FPF are being designed to detect roughly a hundred
thousand elecrton neutrinos, a million muon neutrinos, and a
thousand tau neutrino interactions with energies between several hundreds of GeV and a few TeV, an energy range that has not been directly probed for any neutrino flavor. In addition, by measuring the charge of the resulting muons in charged-current interactions, muon and tau neutrinos and anti-neutrinos will be distinguished. These neutrino event will significantly extend accelerator cross section measurements and provide the first opportunity for detailed studies of tau neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. They will also open up new avenues to discover or constrain BSM physics effects in neutrino production, propagation, and interactions, with important implications for QCD and astroparticle physics.
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