Conveners
The SHiP experiment: the flagship to probe hidden sectors: The SHiP experiment: the flagship to probe hidden sectors
- Matei Climecu (Ghent University)
Description
The Standard Model of particle physics is known to be incomplete; well-motivated extensions to it include low-coupling new physics such as Heavy Neutral Leptons, axion-like particles, and extra scalars. The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) is a general-purpose experiment designed to access new regions of phase space by leveraging a high-intensity beam dump at HI-ECN3's Beam Dump Facility using 4x10^19 400 GeV CERN SPS protons on target per year of operation. The detector apparatus consists of two complementary sections: on the one hand, a Scattering Neutrino Detector will observe large fluxes of all flavors of neutrinos, search for light dark matter as well as measure nuclear parton distribution and structure functions; on the other hand, a hidden sector decay spectrometer followed by timing and PID detectors will allow to probe never-before explored areas of phase space for new physics at the low-coupling frontier across a wide variety of models. SHiP at the Beam Dump Facility thus offers an unprecedented sensitivity to decay and scattering signatures of various new physics models and tau neutrino physics.
