12 research outputs found

    Neutrino mixing and lepton flavour violation in SUSY-gut models

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    Presented at the XXVII International Conference of Theoretical Physics, "Matter to the Deepest", Ustron, Poland, september 15-21, 2003.In supersymmetric (SUSY) models the misalignment between fermion and sfermion families introduces unsuppressed flavour-changing processes. Even if the mass parameters are chosen to give no flavour violation, family dependent radiative corrections make this adjustment not stable. In par- ticular, due to the observed large neutrino mixings and potentially large neutrino Yukawa couplings, sizable lepton flavour violation (LFV) is ex- pected. After introducing the basic concepts, the framework and the main assumptions, we report on a recent study of rare leptonic decays in a class of SUSY–GUT models with three quasi-degenerate neutrinos. We show that LFV effects are likely visible in forthcoming experiments.This work has been supported by the Spanish CICYT, the Junta de Andalucía and the European Union under contracts FPA2000-1558, FQM 101, and HPRN-CT-2000-00149, respectively

    The Solar Disk at High Energies

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    High energy cosmic rays illuminate the Sun and produce an image that could be observed in up to five different channels: a cosmic-ray shadow (whose energy dependence has been studied by HAWC); a gamma-ray flux (observed at E 200 GeV by Fermi-LAT); a muon shadow (detected by ANTARES and IceCube); a neutron flux (undetected, as there are no hadronic calorimeters in space); a flux of high energy neutrinos. Since these signals are correlated, the ones already observed can be used to reduce the uncertainty in the still undetected ones. Here we define a simple setup that uses the Fermi-LAT and HAWC observations to imply very definite fluxes of neutrons and neutrinos from the solar disk. In particular, we provide a fit of the neutrino flux at 10 GeV–10 TeV that includes its dependence on the zenith angle and on the period of the solar cycle. This flux represents a neutrino floor in indirect dark matter searches. We show that in some benchmark models the current bounds on the dark matter–nucleon cross section push the solar signal below this neutrino floor.Spanish GovernmentJunta de Andalucia PID2019-107844GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 FQM 101 P18-FR-505

    ρ parameter and H 0 → ℓ i ℓ j in models with TeV sterile neutrinos

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    The presence of massive sterile neutrinos N mixed with the active ones induces flavor violating processes in the charged lepton sector at the loop level. In particular, the amplitude of H 0 → ÂŻ ℓ i ℓ j is expected to be proportional to the product of heavy-light Yukawa couplings y i y j = 2 s Îœ i s Îœ j m 2 N / v 2 , where s Îœ i , j express the heavy-light neutrino mixings. Here, we revisit these Higgs decays in the most generic extension of the neutrino sector, focusing on large values of y i . We show that decoupling effects and a cancellation between the two dominant contributions to these processes makes the amplitude about 100 times smaller than anticipated. We find that perturbative values of y i giving an acceptable contribution to the ρ parameter imply B ( H 0 → ÂŻ ℓ i ℓ j ) < 10 − 8 for any lepton flavors, a rate that is not accessible at current colliders.Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities FPA2016-78220-C3 PID2019-107844GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033Junta de Andalucia FQM 101 SOMM17/6104/UGR P18-FR-1962 P18-FR-5057Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT

    Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review

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    The exploration of the universe has recently entered a new era thanks to the multimessenger paradigm, characterized by a continuous increase in the quantity and quality of experimental data that is obtained by the detection of the various cosmic messengers (photons, neutrinos, cosmic rays and gravitational waves) from numerous origins. They give us information about their sources in the universe and the properties of the intergalactic medium. Moreover, multi-messenger astronomy opens up the possibility to search for phenomenological signatures of quantum gravity. On the one hand, the most energetic events allow us to test our physical theories at energy regimes which are not directly accessible in accelerators; on the other hand, tiny effects in the propagation of very high energy particles could be amplified by cosmological distances. After decades of merely theoretical investigations, the possibility of obtaining phenomenological indications of Planck-scale effects is a revolutionary step in the quest for a quantum theory of gravity, but it requires cooperation between different communities of physicists (both theoretical and experimental). This review, prepared within the COST Action CA18108 ‘‘Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach", is aimed at promoting this cooperation by giving a state-of-the art account of the interdisciplinary expertise that is needed in the effective search of quantum gravity footprints in the production, propagation and detection of cosmic messengers.Talent Scientific Research Program of College of Physics, Sichuan University 1082204112427Fostering Program in Disciplines Possessing Novel Features for Natural Science of Sichuan University 2020SCUNL2091000 Talent program of Sichuan province 2021Xunta de GaliciaEuropean Commission European Union ERDF, "Maria de Maeztu'' Units of Excellence program MDM-2016-0692Red Tematica Nacional de Astroparticulas RED2018-102661-TLa Caixa Foundation 100010434European Commission 847648 LCF/BQ/PI21/11830030 754510Ministry of Education, Science & Technological Development, Serbia 451-03-9/2021-14/200124FSR Incoming Postdoctoral Fellowship Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Serbia 451-03-9/2021-14/200124University of Rijeka grant uniri-prirod-18-48Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) IP-2016-06-9782Villum Fonden 29405 DGA-FSE 2020-E2117REuropean Regional Development Fund through the Center of Excellence (TK133) "The Dark Side of the Universe'' European Regional Development Fund (ESIF/ERDF)Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - 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    Neutrino events within muon bundles at neutrino telescopes

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    This work was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Sci-ence, Innovation and Universities (PID2019-107844GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and by the Junta de Andalucia, Spain (FQM 101, SOMM17/6104/UGR, P18-FR-1962, P18-FR-5057) . MGG acknowledges a grant from Programa Operativo de Empleo Juvenil (Junta de Andalucia) . The work of GHT has been funded by the program Es-tancias Postdoctorales en el Extranjero 2019-2020 of CONACYT, Mexico. GHT also acknowledges Prof. Pablo Roig for partial support through Catedra Marcos Moshinsky (Fundacion Marcos Moshinsky) . Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada/CBUA.The atmospheric neutrino flux includes a component from the prompt decay of charmed hadrons that becomes significant only at E >= 10 TeV. At these energies, however, the diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos discovered by IceCube seems to be larger than the atmospheric one. Here we study the possibility to detect a neutrino interaction in down-going atmospheric events at km3 telescopes. The neutrino signal will always appear together with a muon bundle that reveals its atmospheric origin and, generically, it implies an increase in the detector activity with the slant depth. We propose a simple algorithm that could separate these events from regular muon bundles.Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities PID2019-107844GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033Junta de Andalucia European Commission FQM 101- SOMM17/6104/UGR- P18-FR-1962- P18-FR-5057Junta de AndaluciaProgram Es-tancias Postdoctorales en el Extranjero 2019-2020 of CONACYT, MexicoUniversidad de Granada/CBUACatedra Marcos Moshinsky (Fundacion Marcos Moshinsky

    Cosmology of an Axion-Like Majoron

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    We propose a singlet majoron model that defines an inverse seesaw mechanism in the v sector. The majoron phi has a mass m(phi) approximate to 0.5 eV and a coupling to the tau lepton similar to the one to neutrinos. In the early universe it is initially in thermal equilibrium, then it decouples at T approximate to 500 GeV and contributes with just Delta N-eff = 0.026 during BBN. At T = 26 keV (final stages of BBN) a primordial magnetic field induces resonant gamma phi oscillations that transfer 6% of the photon energy into majorons, implying Delta N-eff = 0.55 and a 4.7% increase in the baryon to photon ratio. At T approximate to m(phi) the majoron enters in thermal contact with the heaviest neutrino and it finally decays into v (v) over bar pairs near recombination, setting Delta N-eff = 0.85. The boost in the expansion rate at later times may relax the Hubble tension (we obtain H-0 = (71.4 +/- 0.5) km/s/Mpc), while the processes v (v) over bar phi suppress the free streaming of these particles and make the model consistent with large scale structure observations. Its lifetime and the fact that it decays into neutrinos instead of photons lets this axion-like majoron avoid the strong bounds that affect other axion-like particles of similar mass and coupling to photons.We would like to thank Mar Bastero, Adriån Carmona, Mikael R. Chala, Miguel Escudero, Javier Olmedo, José Santiago and Samuel Witte for discussions. This work was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2019-107844GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and by the Junta de Andalucía (FQM 101, SOMM17/6104/UGR, P18-FR-1962, P18-FR-5057)

    Effects of heavy Majorana neutrinos on lepton flavor violating processes

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    The observation of lepton flavor violating processes at colliders could be a clear signal of a non-minimal neutrino sector. We define a 5-parameter model with a pair of TeV fermion singlets and arbitrary mixings with the three active neutrino flavors. Then we analyze several flavor violating transitions (ℓ→ℓâ€ČÎł,ℓâ€Čℓâ€Čâ€Čℓ¯â€Čâ€Čâ€Č or Ό−e conversions in nuclei) and Z→ℓ¯ℓâ€Č decays induced by the presence of heavy neutrinos. In particular, we calculate all the one-loop contributions to these processes and present their analytic expressions. We focus on the genuine effects of the heavy Majorana masses, comparing the results in that case with the ones obtained when the two heavy neutrinos define a Dirac field. Finally, we use our results to update the bounds on the heavy-light mixings in the neutrino sector.This work was supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, under Grant No. FPA2016-78220-C3-1,2,3- P (fondos FEDER), and Junta de AndalucĂ­a, Grants No. FQM 101 and No. SOMM17/6104/UGR. G. H. T. wants to acknowledge financial support from Conacyt through the program “Estancia Postdoctoral en el Extranjero.” The work of P. R. has been partially funded by Conacyt through the Project No. 250628 (Ciencia BĂĄsica) and Fondo SEP-Cinvestav 2018 (Project No. 142)

    Search for new neutral bosons at future colliders

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    Presented at the XIX International Conference on Theoretical Physics "Particle Physics and Astrophysics in the Standard Model and Beyond", Bystra, Poland, september 19-26, 1995.This is a short review of present and future limits on new neutral gauge bosons, in particular on hadrophilic or leptophobic Z’s recently proposed to interpret the observed fluctuations of Γc,b at LEP. Light gauge bosons coupled to lepton number differences or to baryon number are also examples of the model dependence of these bounds. The mixing between the U(1) factors plays an important role in the phenomenology of these extended electroweak models. Future improvements based on the analysis of precise electroweak data are emphasized.This work has been partially supported by CICYT under contract AEN96-1672 by the Junta de Andalucía, and by the European Union under contract CHRX-CT92-0004

    Cosmology of an Axion-Like Majoron

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    We would like to thank Mar Bastero, Adrian Carmona, Mikael R. Chala, Miguel Escud-ero, Javier Olmedo, Jose Santiago and Samuel Witte for discussions. This work was par-tially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2019-107844GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and by the Junta de Andalucia (FQM 101, SOMM17/6104/UGR, P18-FR-1962, P18-FR-5057) .We propose a singlet majoron model that defines an inverse seesaw mechanism in the v sector. The majoron phi has a mass m(phi) approximate to 0.5 eV and a coupling to the tau lepton similar to the one to neutrinos. In the early universe it is initially in thermal equilibrium, then it decouples at T approximate to 500 GeV and contributes with just Delta N-eff = 0.026 during BBN. At T = 26 keV (final stages of BBN) a primordial magnetic field induces resonant gamma phi oscillations that transfer 6% of the photon energy into majorons, implying Delta N-eff = 0.55 and a 4.7% increase in the baryon to photon ratio. At T approximate to m(phi) the majoron enters in thermal contact with the heaviest neutrino and it finally decays into v (v) over bar pairs near recombination, setting Delta N-eff = 0.85. The boost in the expansion rate at later times may relax the Hubble tension (we obtain H-0 = (71.4 +/- 0.5) km/s/Mpc), while the processes v (v) over bar phi suppress the free streaming of these particles and make the model consistent with large scale structure observations. Its lifetime and the fact that it decays into neutrinos instead of photons lets this axion-like majoron avoid the strong bounds that affect other axion-like particles of similar mass and coupling to photons.Spanish Government PID2019-107844GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033Junta de Andalucia FQM 101 SOMM17/6104/UGR P18-FR-1962 P18-FR-505

    The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC

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    Acknowledgments We thank the participants of the FPF meetings and the Snowmass working groups for discussions that have contributed both directly and indirectly to this study. We gratefully acknowledge the invaluable support of the CERN Physics Beyond Colliders study group and the work of CERN technical teams related to civil engineering studies (SCE-DOD), safety discussions (HSE-OHS, HSE-RP, EP-DI-SO), integration (EN-ACE), and discussions on services (EN-CV, EN-EL, EN-AA) and simulations (SY-STI). The work by J Alameddine, W Rhode, T Ruhe, and A Sandrock has been supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), Collaborative Research Center SFB 876 and SFB 1491. L A Anchordoqui is supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant PHY-2112527. T Araki is supported by JP18H01210. A Ariga is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant JP20K23373 and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant 101002690). T Ariga acknowledges support from JSPS KAKENHI Grant JP19H01909. K Asai is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant JP19J13812 and JP21K20365. A Bacchetta and F G Celiberto acknowledge support from the INFN/NINPHA project. P Bakhti and M Rajaee are supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2020R1I1A3072747). B Barman received funding from the Patrimonio AutĂłnomo—Fondo Nacional de Financiamiento para la Ciencia, la TecnologĂ­a y la InnovaciĂłn Francisco JosĂ© de Caldas (MinCiencias—Colombia) Grant 80740-465-2020 and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 860881-HIDDeN. The work of B Batell is supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Grant DE–SC0007914. The work of A Berlin, T J Hobbs, S Hoeche, and J G MorfĂ­n was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a US DOE, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359. M Becker, E Copello and J Harz acknowledge support from the DFG Emmy Noether Grant HA 8555/1-1. E Copello acknowledges also support from the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 'Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics' (SFB 1258). E Bertuzzo acknowledges financial support from FAPESP Contracts 2015/25884-4 and 2019/15149-6 and is indebted to the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology group at King's College London for hospitality. The work of J Bian and W Wu is supported in part by US DOE Grant DE-SC0009920 and Heising-Simons Foundation Grant 2022-3319. The work of A Boyarsky and M Ovchynnikov is supported by the ERC under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (GA 694896). A Carmona acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie SkƂodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754446 and UGR Research and Knowledge Transfer Found—Athenea3i. A Carmona also acknowledges partial support by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and SRA (10.13039/501100011033) Grant PID2019-106087GB-C22 and by the Junta de AndalucĂ­a Grant A-FQM-472-UGR20. F G Celiberto thanks the UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Pavia for the warm hospitality. The work of G Chachamis was supported by the Fundação para a CiĂȘncia e a Tecnologia (Portugal) under Project CERN/FIS-PAR/0024/2019 and Contract 'Investigador auxiliar FCT—Individual Call/03216/2017'. The work of M Citron and D Stuart is supported by US DOE Grant DE-SC0011702. The work of L Darme is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement 101028626. P B Denton acknowledges support from the US DOE Grant Contract DE-SC0012704. The work of P S Bhupal Dev was supported in part by the US DOE Grant DE-SC0017987. The research activities of K R Dienes were supported in part by the US DOE Grant DE-FG02-13ER41976/DE-SC0009913 and also by the US NSF through its employee IR/D program. M V Diwan acknowledges support from the US DOE Grant Contract DE-SC0012704. Y Du and J H Yu are supported in part by National Key Research and Development Program of China Grant 2020YFC2201501, and the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grants 12022514, 11875003 and 12047503, and CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research YSBR-006, and the Key Research Program of the CAS Grant XDPB15. The work of B Dutta and S Ghosh are supported in part by the US DOE Grant DE-SC0010813. The work of S Ghosh is also supported in part by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)'s Grants, Grant 6N021413. Y Farzan has received financial support from Saramadan Contract ISEF/M/400279 as well as from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie SkƂodowska-Curie Grant Agreement 860881-HIDDeN. The work of J L Feng is supported in part by US NSF Grants PHY-1915005 and PHY-2111427, Simons Investigator Award #376204, Simons Foundation Grant 623683, and Heising-Simons Foundation Grants 2019-1179 and 2020-1840. M Fieg is supported in part by US NSF Grant PHY-1915005 and by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award DGE-1839285. A L Foguel is supported by FAPESP Contract 2020/00174-2. The work of P Foldenauer is supported by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship DARKMAP. The work of S Foroughi-Abari and A Ritz is supported in part by NSERC, Canada. The work of J-F Fortin is supported in part by NSERC, Canada. A Friedland is supported by the US DOE Grant DE-AC02-76SF00515. E Fuchs acknowledges support by the DFG Germany's Excellence Strategy—EXC-2123 'QuantumFrontiers'—390837967. M Fucilla, M M A Mohammed, and A Papa acknowledge support from the INFN/QFT@COLLIDERS project. A Garcia acknowledges support from the European Union's H2020-MSCA Grant Agreement 101025085. C A GarcĂ­a Canal and S J Sciutto acknowledge support from CONICET and ANPCyT M V Garzelli acknowledges support the from German BMBF Contract 05H21GUCCA. V P Goncalves was partially financed by the Brazilian funding agencies CNPq, CAPES, FAPERGS and INCT-FNA (Process Number 464898/2014-5). S Goswami acknowledges the J C Bose Fellowship (JCB/2020/000011) of Science and Engineering Research Board of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The work of M Guzzi is supported by US NSF Grant PHY-2112025. L Harland-Lang thanks the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for support via Grant Award ST/L000377/1. The work of S P Harris is supported by the US DOE Grant DE-FG02-00ER41132 as well as the US NSF Grant PHY-1430152 (JINA Center for the Evolution of the Elements). J C Helo acknowledge support from Grant ANID FONDECYT-Chile 1201673 and ANID—Millennium Science Initiative Program ICN2019-044. The work of M Hirsch is supported by the Spanish Grants PID2020-113775GB-I00 (AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and PROMETEO/2018/165 (Generalitat Valenciana). The work of A Hryczuk and M Laletin is supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, research Grant 2018/31/D/ST2/00813. The research activities of F Huang are supported by the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program and in part by US NSF Grant PHY-1915005. A Ismail is supported by NSERC (Reference Number 557763) and by US NSF Grant PHY-2014071. Y S Jeong acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government through Ministry of Science and ICT Grant 2021R1A2C1009296. K Jodlowski and L Roszkowski are supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, research Grant 2015/18/A/ST2/00748. S R Klein is supported in part by the US NSF Grant PHY-1307472 and the US DOE Contract DE-AC-76SF00098. F Kling and P QuĂ­lez are supported by the DFG under Germany's Excellence Strategy—EXC 2121 Quantum Universe—390833306. P Ko is supported in part by KIAS Individual Grant PG021403 and by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant NRF-2019R1A2C3005009. S Kulkarni is supported by the Austrian Science Fund Elise-Richter Grant V592-N27. The work of J Kumar is supported in part by US DOE Grant DE-SC0010504. J-L Kuo is supported by US NSF Theoretical Physics Program, Grant PHY-1915005. The work of C Le Roux and K Zapp is part of a project that has received funding from the ERC under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant Agreement 803183, collectiveQCD). The work of H-S Lee was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2021R1A2C2009718). S J Lee was supported by the Samsung Science and Technology Foundation. Ji Li is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 11905149. K-F Lyu and Z Liu are supported in part by the US DOE Grant DE-SC0022345. The work of R Maciula and A Szczurek was partially supported by the Polish National Science Centre under Grant 2018/31/B/ST2/03537. R Mammen Abraham and A Ismail acknowledge support from the US DOE Grant DE-SC0016013. M R Masouminia is supported by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (Grant ST/P001246/1). The work of J McFayden was supported by the Royal Society Fellowship Grant URF R1 201519. The work of O Mikulenko is supported by the NWO Physics Vrij Programme 'The Hidden Universe of Weakly Inter-acting Particles' with Project Number 680.92.18.03 (NWO Vrije Programma), which is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). P Nadolsky and F Olness acknowledge support through US DOE Grant DE-SC0010129. E R Nocera thanks the STFC for support by the Grant Awards ST/P000630/1and ST/T000600/1. The work of N Okada is supported by the US DOE Grant DE-SC0012447. V Pandey acknowledges the support from US DOE Grant DE-SC0009824. The work of D Raut is supported by the US DOE Grant DE-SC0013880. P Reimitz acknowledges financial support from FAPESP Contract 2020/10004-7. M H Reno is supported in part by US DOE Grant DE-SC-0010113. The work of J Rojo is partly supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). L Roszkowski and S Trojanowski are supported by the grant 'AstroCeNT: Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre' carried out within the International Research Agendas programme of the Foundation for Polish Science financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund. S Trojanowski is also supported in part by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education through its scholarship for young and outstanding scientists (Decision No. 1190/E-78/STYP/14/2019). S Trojanowski is also supported in part from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 952480 (DarkWave 24 project). I Sarcevic is supported by US DOE Grant DOE DE-SC-0009913. The work of L Shchutska is supported by the ERC under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (GA 758316). The work of T Shimomura is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grants JP18H01210, JP18K03651, and MEXT KAKENHI Grant JP18H05543. The work of K Sinha is supported in part by US DOE Grant DE-SC0009956. The work of T Sjöstrand is supported by the Swedish Research Council, Contract 2016-05996. J T Sobczyk acknowledges support from NCN Grant UMO-2021/41/B/ST2/02778. D Soldin acknowledges support from the US NSF Grant PHY-1913607. H Song is supported by the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program. Y Soreq is supported by grants from the NSF-BSF, BSF, the ISF and by the Azrieli foundation. A Stasto acknowledges support from US DOE Grant DE-SC-0002145. S Su is supported by the US DOE Grant DE-FG02-13ER41976/DE-SC0009913. W Su is supported by a KIAS Individual Grant (PG084201) at Korea Institute for Advanced Study. Y Takubo is supported by JP20K04004. M Taoso acknowledges support from the INFN Grant 'LINDARK', the research grant 'The Dark Universe: A Synergic Multimessenger Approach 2017X7X85' funded by MIUR, and the project 'Theoretical Astroparticle Physics (TAsP)' funded by the INFN. The research activities of B Thomas are supported in part by US NSF Grant PHY-2014104. The work of Y-D Tsai is supported in part by US NSF Grant PHY-1915005. The work of A Sabio Vera has been supported by the Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de InvestigaciĂłn) through the Grant IFT Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2016-0597, by the Spanish Government Grant FPA2016-78022-P and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement 824093. The work of Yongchao Zhang is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 12175039, the 2021 Jiangsu Shuangchuang (Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship) Talent Program JSSCBS20210144, and the 'Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities'. Yue Zhang is supported by the Arthur B McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute. R Zukanovich Funchal is partially supported by Fundação de Amparo Ă  Pesquisa do Estado de SĂŁo Paulo (FAPESP) and Conselho Nacional de CiĂȘncia e Tecnologia (CNPq). The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not represent any funding agencies.High energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large number of particles along the beam collision axis, outside of the acceptance of existing LHC experiments. The proposed Forward Physics Facility (FPF), to be located several hundred meters from the ATLAS interaction point and shielded by concrete and rock, will host a suite of experiments to probe standard model (SM) processes and search for physics beyond the standard model (BSM). In this report, we review the status of the civil engineering plans and the experiments to explore the diverse physics signals that can be uniquely probed in the forward region. FPF experiments will be sensitive to a broad range of BSM physics through searches for new particle scattering or decay signatures and deviations from SM expectations in high statistics analyses with TeV neutrinos in this low-background environment. High statistics neutrino detection will also provide valuable data for fundamental topics in perturbative and non-perturbative QCD and in weak interactions. Experiments at the FPF will enable synergies between forward particle production at the LHC and astroparticle physics to be exploited. 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