Ahdida, C;
Albanese, R;
Alexandrov, A;
Anokhina, A;
Aoki, S;
Arduini, G;
Atkin, E;
... Zaytsev, Y; + view all
(2019)
The experimental facility for the Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS.
Journal of Instrumentation
, 14
, Article P03025. 10.1088/1748-0221/14/03/P03025.
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Abstract
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has shown that the CERN SPS accelerator with its 400 GeV/c proton beam offers a unique opportunity to explore the Hidden Sector [1–3]. The proposed experiment is an intensity frontier experiment which is capable of searching for hidden particles through both visible decays and through scattering signatures from recoil of electrons or nuclei. The high-intensity experimental facility developed by the SHiP Collaboration is based on a number of key features and developments which provide the possibility of probing a large part of the parameter space for a wide range of models with light long-lived super-weakly interacting particles with masses up to Script O(10) GeV/c² in an environment of extremely clean background conditions. This paper describes the proposal for the experimental facility together with the most important feasibility studies. The paper focuses on the challenging new ideas behind the beam extraction and beam delivery, the proton beam dump, and the suppression of beam-induced background.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The experimental facility for the Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-0221/14/03/P03025 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/03/P03025 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 CERN. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of Sissa Medialab. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
| Keywords: | Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics, Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions etc.), Neutrino detectors |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073760 |
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