SHiP : a new facility for searching for long-lived neutral particles and studying the tau neutrino properties
Dr. Geraldine Conti (CERN)

SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) is a new general purpose fixed target facility, proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator. In its initial phase, the 400 GeV proton beam will be dumped on a heavy target, integrating 2x10^20 protons on target in 5 years. A dedicated detector located downstream of the target, based on a long vacuum tank and a spectrometer and particle identification detectors, will allow probing a variety of models with light long-lived neutral and very weakly interacting particles and masses below 10 GeV. The main focus will be the physics of the so-called Hidden Portals, i.e. search for Dark Photons, Light scalars and pseudo-scalars, and Heavy Neutrinos. Another dedicated detector, based on the Emulsion Cloud Chamber technology already used in the OPERA experiment, will allow to study active neutrino cross sections and neutrino differential cross sections. Tau neutrinos will be distinguished from tau anti-neutrinos, thus providing the first observation of the tau anti-neutrino.