Project: SHiP
Goals
Within the SHiP experiment, we are involved in the readout chain of the Surrounding Background Tagger (SBT). We tackle the readout challenge to reduce the amount of data by online classification with neuromorphic principles.
Collaboration
- SHiP collaboration
- University Freiburg
- Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Further Info
www.ship.web.cern.ch/
Contacts
The SHiP Experiment and the SBT Readout
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) is a fixed target experiment proposed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator to search for long-lived exotic particles associated with Hidden Sectors and Dark Matter [1].
The proposed experiment will use the SPS proton beam spill over a period of 5 years to produce secondary particles at its fixed target. The target and the hadron absorber are designed to stop hadrons and the electromagnetic component as well as to prevent meson decays. The following active muon shielding is magnetically filtering charged muons from the downstream detector solid angle [1,2].
The detectors will allow the search for decay signatures by full reconstruction and particle identification of Standard Model final states. Furthermore, search for scattering signatures of Light Dark Matter by the detection of recoil of atomic electrons or nuclei in a heavy medium as well as study of the tau-neutrino interactions are other topics[1,3].
References
References
[1] Sergey Alekhin et al. A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case. 2016 Rep. Prog. Phys. 79 124201, https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/79/12/124201
[2] Miano, A., Fiorillo, A., Salzano, A. et al. The structural design of the decay volume for the Search for Hidden Particles (SHIP) project. Archiv.Civ.Mech.Eng 21, 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43452-020-00152-9
[3] C. Ahdida et al. The experimental facility for the Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS, 2019 JINST 14 P03025, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/03/P03025
[4] A. Brignoli, A. Hollnagel, H. Lacker, F. Lyons, et al. Performance of a First Full-Size WOM-Based Liquid Scintillator Detector Cell as Prototype for the SHiP Surrounding Background Tagger, 2023, arXiv:2311,07340 [physics.ins-det], https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.07340
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