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SHiP Detector Paper published

SHiP Detector Paper published

SHiP Design

SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) is a multi-purpose beam dump experiment proposed to be installed at the CERN SPS proton beam. The SHiP collaboration -- which the Freiburg astroparticle physics group joined recently -- now published a scientific paper describing the baseline detector design. This is the result of of a comprehensive design study which lasted several years and included a detailed Monte-Carlo-based study of the expected backgrounds.

SHiP is supposed to be a detection experiment which poses stringent constraints on the expected backgrounds. The current design, presented in the article, aims for zero background conditions (which means <0.1 event for the total planned exposure of 2x1020 protons on the beamdump target).

Article:

  • The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility
    C. Ahdida et al. (SHiP Collaboration)
    arXiv:2112:01487