The SHiP experiment at CERN
arXiv:2009.06003
Abstract
The current status of the proposed SHiP experiment at the CERN Beam Dump Facility is presented. SHiP is a general-purpose fixed-target experiment. The 400 GeV/ proton beam extracted from the SPS will be dumped on a heavy target to integrate protons on target in five years. The detector, based on a long vacuum tank followed by a spectrometer and particle identification detectors, will allow to probe a variety of models with light long-lived exotic particles and masses below GeV/. The main focus will be the physics of the so-called hidden portals, i.e. the search for dark photons, light scalars and pseudo-scalars, and heavy neutrinos. The sensitivity to heavy neutrinos will allow to probe, in the mass range between the kaon and the charm meson mass, a coupling range for which baryogenesis and active neutrino masses could also be explained. A second dedicated detector will study neutrinos and explore light dark matter.
8 pages, 4 figures, presented at the 3rd World Summit on Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe, Guadeloupe Islands, March 9-13 2020