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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 59: Neutrino Physics V

T 59.6: Talk

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 17:30–17:45, VG 3.103

Topological reconstruction of neutrino interactions with the SHiP detector — •James Webb, Christian Weiser, and Karl Jakobs — Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Physikalisches Institut, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

The SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) experiment, to be installed within ECN3 at CERN, aims to utilise a 400 GeV/c proton beam on target to probe a broad physics regime. The high energy, high intensity proton beam dump will produce a high flux of all neutrino flavours, making this environment ideally suited for performing neutrino physics studies.

A proposed detector to exploit the neutrino flux comprises a passive tungsten plane, followed by pairs of rotated silicon strip detectors; many such layers are envisioned to be stacked up along the beam axis.

This talk will discuss the potential of such a detector in terms of track and vertex reconstruction, with an emphasis on studying tau neutrino interactions.

Keywords: SHiP; Neutrino physics; Silicon detectors; Tracking; Beam dump