Cavendish HEP Seminars: Setting sail for hidden treasures: why SHiP, why now?

Tuesday 17 Nov 2026, 11:00 → 12:15 Europe/London

Ray Dolby Centre Seminar Room B, B2.002

Matthew David Monk (University of Cambridge (GB)), Nikolai Fomin (University of Cambridge (GB))

https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/273085/

The SHiP experiment is a general-purpose intensity-frontier experiment with two main objectives: the search for feebly interacting particles at the GeV scale using its decay detector, and precision measurements in the neutrino sector, alongside searches for light dark matter, using its scattering and neutrino detector. In 2024, CERN selected SHiP as the first experiment to exploit the high-intensity 400 GeV proton beamline at HI-ECN3, together with the implementation of the Beam Dump Facility (BDF). This seminar will present the physics motivation behind the project, review the current status of the BDF target complex, active muon shield and SHiP detectors, and discuss the experimental challenges involved in achieving the near-zero-background conditions essential to exploring this largely uncharted territory.

11:00 → 12:00 Seminar

Speaker: Dr Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College (GB))