A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutrinos. Hidden particles are predicted by a large number of models beyond the Standard Model. The high intensity of the SPS 400~GeV beam allows probing a wide variety of models containing light long-lived exotic particles with masses below ${\cal O}$(10)~GeV/c$^2$, including very weakly interacting low-energy SUSY states. The experimental programme of the proposed facility is capable of being extended in the future, e.g. to include direct searches for Dark Matter and Lepton Flavour Violation.Comment: Technical Proposa

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutrinos. Hidden particles are predicted by a large number of models beyond the Standard Model. The high intensity of the SPS 400~GeV beam allows probing a wide variety of models containing light long-lived exotic particles with masses below ${\cal O}$(10)~GeV/c$^2$, including very weakly interacting low-energy SUSY states. The experimental programme of the proposed facility is capable of being extended in the future, e.g. to include direct searches for Dark Matter and Lepton Flavour Violation

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutrinos. Hidden particles are predicted by a large number of models beyond the Standard Model. The high intensity of the SPS 400~GeV beam allows probing a wide variety of models containing light long-lived exotic particles with masses below ${\cal O}$(10)~GeV/c$^2$, including very weakly interacting low-energy SUSY states. The experimental programme of the proposed facility is capable of being extended in the future, e.g. to include direct searches for Dark Matter and Lepton Flavour Violation

COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIS OF SCINTHILLATION CERAMICS BASED ON NANOPOWDER

FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to the field of scintillation technology used to register ionizing radiation. Disclosed is the composition of scintillation ceramics based on yttrium alumina garnet doped with cerium ions (Ce3+:Y3Al5O12) made of a mixture of nanopowders of yttrium oxide doped with cerium ions (Ce:Y2O3), aluminum oxide (Al2O3), and yttrium oxide (Y2O3). Yttrium oxide is added to maintain stoichiometry, if necessary. The composition contains a sintering additive. Zirconium (Zr) is used as a sintering additive in the form of zirconium oxide ZrO2 with the content of 0.05-0.15 wt.%. EFFECT: increased speed of the ceramic scintillator without reducing the glow intensity. 2 cl, 2 dwg, 1 tbl.Группа изобретений относится к области сцинтилляционной техники, применяемой для регистрации ионизирующих излучений. Состав сцинтилляционной керамики на основе алюмоиттриевого граната, активированного ионами церия (Ce3+:Y3Al5O12), изготовленной из смеси нанопорошков оксида иттрия, допированного ионами церия (Ce:Y2O3), оксида алюминия (Al2O3) и оксида иттрия (Y2O3), при необходимости добавления последнего с целью сохранения стехиометрии, и содержащей спекающую добавку, при этом в качестве спекающей добавки содержит цирконий (Zr) в виде оксида циркония ZrO2 с содержанием 0,05-0,15 мас.%. Технический результат – повышение быстродействия керамического сцинтиллятора без снижения интенсивности свечения. 2 н.п. ф-лы, 1 табл., 2 ил

A Facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS: Addendum to Technical Proposal

This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the largely unexplored domain of very weakly interacting particles with masses below the Fermi scale, inaccessible to the LHC experiments, and to study tau neutrino physics. The same proton beam setup can be used later to look for decays of tau-leptons with lepton flavour number non-conservation, τ→3μ and to search for weakly-interacting sub-GeV dark matter candidates. We discuss the evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model and describe interactions between new particles and four different portals - scalars, vectors, fermions or axion-like particles. We discuss motivations for different models, manifesting themselves via these interactions, and how they can be probed with the SHiP experiment and present several case studies. The prospects to search for relatively light SUSY and composite particles at SHiP are also discussed. We demonstrate that the SHiP experiment has a unique potential to discover new physics and can directly probe a number of solutions of beyond the Standard Model puzzles, such as neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, and inflation

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutrinos. Hidden particles are predicted by a large number of models beyond the Standard Model. The high intensity of the SPS 400~GeV beam allows probing a wide variety of models containing light long-lived exotic particles with masses below ${\cal O}$(10)~GeV/c$^2$, including very weakly interacting low-energy SUSY states. The experimental programme of the proposed facility is capable of being extended in the future, e.g. to include direct searches for Dark Matter and Lepton Flavour Violation