Jun 14 – 16, 2023
AlbaNova Main Building
Europe/Stockholm timezone

The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility

Jun 14, 2023, 11:15 AM
15m
Oskar Klein Auditorium FR4 (AlbaNova Main Building)

Oskar Klein Auditorium FR4

AlbaNova Main Building

Speaker in ELPA session Sektionen för elementarpartikel och astropartikelfysik Sektionen för elementarpartikel och astropartikelfysik

Speaker

Richard Jacobsson (CERN)

Description

We present the proposal for a general-purpose intensity-frontier experimental facility BDF/SHiP, operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator in the existing SPS ECN3 experimental area. This proposal is part of the ongoing decision process focused on the beyond-LS3 physics program in ECN3, which should come to conclusion by the end of 2023. The SHiP experiment aims to search for feebly interacting GeV-scale particles and perform measurements in neutrino physics. BDF/SHiP complements the worldwide program of New Physics searches by exploring a large region of parameter space that cannot be addressed by other experiments, and which reaches several orders of magnitude below existing bounds by efficiently exploiting the currently available 4x10^19 protons per year at 400 GeV for up to 10-15 years. The SHiP experiment has generic sensitivity to decay and scattering signatures of models with feebly interacting particles, such as dark-sector mediators and light dark matter. In neutrino physics, BDF/SHiP can perform unprecedented measurements with tau neutrinos and neutrino-induced charm production. This proposal benefits from the extensive studies related to the Technical Proposal submitted in 2015 and the subsequent Comprehensive Design Study (CDS) of BDF/SHiP located at a new beamline at the CERN SPS.

Primary authors

Richard Jacobsson (CERN) SHiP Collaboration

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