H. Lacker: Search for long-lived, very weakly interacting particles - the proposed SHiP facility at CERN

Date

Nov 16, 2017

Time

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker

Heiko Lacker

Affiliation

Humboldt University, Berlin

Series

IKTP Institutsseminar

Language

en

Main Topic

Physik

Other Topics

Physik

Host

Joany Manjarres

Description

The experimental evidence for Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics such as the non-zero neutrino masses, the baryon asymmetry in the Universe, and the existence of non-baryonic dark matter may have their origin in new physics involving very weakly interacting particles as predicted by models with a secluded or hidden sector of particles. In general, these models contain mediators that couple very weakly with
SM particles, acting as portals to the hidden sector, e.g. dark photon, Majorana neutrinos, dark scalars, etc. Relatively light warm dark matter is naturally accommodated in these models. Given the small coupling constants and typically long lifetimes, hidden particles have not been significantly constrained by previous experiments, and the reach at current experiments is limited by both luminosity and acceptance.
The talk will describe the recently proposed SHiP experiment at the SPS which is aiming at generically searching for hidden particles. The high power and unique operational mode of the SPS provide ideal conditions for accessing a wide variety of light long-lived very weakly interacting particles and light dark matter. With 2x10^20 protons on target, SHiP is able to achieve sensitivities which are up to four orders of magnitude better than previous constraints, accessing a significant fraction of the unexplored parameter space. Such an experiment would be a perfect complement to the LHC in the search for new physics at CERN. The SHiP experiment is also ideally suited to study the interactions of tau neutrinos.

Links

• Termindetails auf den Webseiten der TU Dresden (https://tu-dresden.de)

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