Search for new physics with the SHiP experiment

by Maksym Ovchynnikov (Leiden University (NL))

Thursday 13 Jun 2024, 16:00 → 17:00 Australia/Sydney

New physics may manifest itself via feebly interacting (equivalently, long-lived) particles in the GeV range. It would be quite challenging to search for them with main LHC experiments and later with FCC-ee. One of the flagships in exploring this parameter space is SHiP - a recently approved beam dump experiment that will operate at SPS@CERN. During the seminar, I will first discuss the long-lived particles in the GeV scale, describing complications with the description of their phenomenology. Then, I will briefly overview the status of current and future searches for them. Then, I will describe the SHiP's setup and proceed to its physics case, going from the exclusion sensitivity to discovery reach. In particular, I will demonstrate how SHiP will be able to establish the relation of the would-be-observed particles to the resolution of the BSM problems.

KIT_seminar__SHiP.pdf