2020/02/20 by C. Ahdida, SHiP Collaboration, Ahdida, C. +451 · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2002.08722
openalex publication_date 2020/02/20 · openalex created_date 2022/08/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose to build and operate a detector that, for the first time, will\nmeasure the process pp\→\ν X at the LHC and search for feebly interacting\nparticles (FIPs) in an unexplored domain. The TI18 tunnel has been identified\nas a suitable site to perform these measurements due to very low\nmachine-induced background. The detector will be off-axis with respect to the\nATLAS interaction point (IP1) and, given the pseudo-rapidity range accessible,\nthe corresponding neutrinos will mostly come from charm decays: the proposed\nexperiment will thus make the first test of the heavy flavour production in a\npseudo-rapidity range that is not accessible by the current LHC detectors. In\norder to efficiently reconstruct neutrino interactions and identify their\nflavour, the detector will combine in the target region nuclear emulsion\ntechnology with scintillating fibre tracking layers and it will adopt a muon\nidentification system based on scintillating bars that will also play the role\nof a hadronic calorimeter. The time of flight measurement will be achieved\nthanks to a dedicated timing detector. The detector will be a small-scale\nprototype of the scattering and neutrino detector (SND) of the SHiP experiment:\nthe operation of this detector will provide an important test of the neutrino\nreconstruction in a high occupancy environment.\n