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SHiP - Search for Hidden Particles |
Experiment at the SPS to Search for Hidden Particles
| SHiP is a new general-purpose
experiment to be installed in a beam dump facility at the SPS to
search for hidden particles as predicted by a very large
number of recently elaborated models of Hidden Sectors
which are capable of accommodating dark matter, neutrino
oscillations, and the origin of the full baryon
asymmetry in the Universe.
Specifically,
the experiment is aimed at searching for very weakly
interacting long lived particles including Heavy Neutral
Leptons - right-handed partners of the active neutrinos,
vector, scalar, axion portals to the Hidden Sector, and
light supersymmetric particles - sgoldstinos, etc.The high intensity
of the SPS and in particular the large production of
charm mesons
and photons with the 400 GeV beam allow accessing a
wide variety of light long-lived exotic particles of
such models and of SUSY.
The detector
incorporates two complementary apparatuses which are capable
of searching for hidden particles through both visible
decays and through scattering signatures from recoil of
electrons or nuclei. Moreover, the facility is
ideally suited to study the interactions of tau
neutrinos. |
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| SHiP is currently a collaboration of 54 institutes from 18 countries. Groups interested in joining should contact Andrey Golutvin and Eric van Herwijnen. |
CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211, Genève 23, Switzerland
