Open AccessNeutrino physics with the SHiP experiment at CERN
Author(s) -
A. Pastore
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1690/1/012171
Subject(s) - neutrino , physics , large hadron collider , particle physics , nuclear physics , charm (quantum number) , lepton , nucleon , physics beyond the standard model , electron
The SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) experiment has been recently proposed at CERN to be operated in beam dump mode at the SPS, with the aim of investigating the Hidden Sector searching for long-lived particles in the GeV mass range. The beam dump will be a copious source of hidden particles, together with active neutrinos of all flavours. The SHiP detector is designed to detect feebly interacting particles and to perform precision studies of neutrino and anti-neutrino interactions, too. In five years run 2 × 10 20 protons on target will be delivered, leading to the first direct observation of tau anti-neutrinos. The v ¯ τ and v τ deep-inelastic scattering cross-sections will be evaluated with a statistics a thousand times larger than currently available. The F 4 and F 5 structure functions, never measured so far, will be also extracted and charm physics studies will be realised with improved accuracy with respect to the past, thus improving the sensitivity to the s quark distribution in the nucleon.This paper will focus on the neutrino physics potential of the SHiP experiment, including its sensitivity to Heavy Neutral Leptons searches.