Performance Study of the Scattering Neutrino Detector at the Large Hadron Collider*

The Scattering Neutrino Detector at the Large Hadron Collider (SND@LHC) is a compact stand-alone experiment aiming to measure high energy neutrino cross section. The data acquisition is triggerless. The detector has nuclear emulsions and electronic detectors, allowing for a detailed measurement of neutrino interactions at energies never studied before (1 TeV) in a specific region of space that larger detectors cannot access. My research focused on event building from raw data sets and testing the parameters of employed event building strategies through many different analyses to further our understanding of the performance of the detector. This ensures that relevant physics such as neutrino interactions are present and not cut out of the event. This was done through the investigation of the timestamps of events, testing different noise filters, determining the efficiency of employed event building, and muon tracking. My research showed there are dips in the timestamps of the event building data due to the calibration policy. This creates a new potential research investigation to smooth out this data. I further confirmed that two currently employed noise filter settings work as intended, and performed muon flux measurements showing that the employed event building is robust.