| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 179, 2018
International Workshop on “Flavour Changing and Conserving Processes” (FCCP2017)
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| Article Number | 01002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817901002 | |
| Published online | 23 May 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817901002
The SHiP physics program
Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Pancini", Università "Federico II" and INFN, Naples, Italy
a e-mail: giovanni.de.lellis@cern.ch
Published online: 23 May 2018
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 of the Universe, which deserve an explanation that could come from the discovery of new particles. The SHiP experiment 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 high intensity 400 GeV protons is a copious source of such unknown particles in the GeV mass range. 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 including the tau neutrino magnetic moment.
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