The discovery of the Higgs boson has fully confirmed the Standard Model of particles and fields. Nevertheless, there are still fundamental phenomena, like the existence of dark matter and the baryon asymmetry, which deserve an explanation that could come from the discovery of new particles. Searches for new physics with accelerators are performed at the LHC, looking for high massive particles coupled to matter with ordinary strength. A new experimental facility at CERN meant to search for very weakly coupled particles in the few GeV mass domain has been recently proposed. The existence of such particles, foreseen in different theoretical models beyond the Standard Model, is largely unexplored. A beam dump facility using 400 GeV protons is a copious factory of charmed hadrons and could be used to probe the existence of such particles. The beam dump is also a copious source of neutrinos and in particular it is an ideal source of tau neutrinos, the less known particle in the Standard Model. Indeed, tau anti-neutrinos have not been directly observed so far. We report the physics potential of such an experiment. Resistive Plate Chambers could play a role in the SHiP detector.

The SHiP project at CERN / DE LELLIS, Giovanni. - In: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION. - ISSN 1748-0221. - 11:07(2016), pp. C07003-C07003. (Intervento presentato al convegno 13th Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors tenutosi a Ghent, Belgium) [10.1088/1748-0221/11/07/C07003].

The SHiP project at CERN

DE LELLIS, GIOVANNI
2016

Abstract

The discovery of the Higgs boson has fully confirmed the Standard Model of particles and fields. Nevertheless, there are still fundamental phenomena, like the existence of dark matter and the baryon asymmetry, which deserve an explanation that could come from the discovery of new particles. Searches for new physics with accelerators are performed at the LHC, looking for high massive particles coupled to matter with ordinary strength. A new experimental facility at CERN meant to search for very weakly coupled particles in the few GeV mass domain has been recently proposed. The existence of such particles, foreseen in different theoretical models beyond the Standard Model, is largely unexplored. A beam dump facility using 400 GeV protons is a copious factory of charmed hadrons and could be used to probe the existence of such particles. The beam dump is also a copious source of neutrinos and in particular it is an ideal source of tau neutrinos, the less known particle in the Standard Model. Indeed, tau anti-neutrinos have not been directly observed so far. We report the physics potential of such an experiment. Resistive Plate Chambers could play a role in the SHiP detector.
2016
The SHiP project at CERN / DE LELLIS, Giovanni. - In: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION. - ISSN 1748-0221. - 11:07(2016), pp. C07003-C07003. (Intervento presentato al convegno 13th Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors tenutosi a Ghent, Belgium) [10.1088/1748-0221/11/07/C07003].
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