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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 45: Neutrino Physics III
T 45.7: Talk
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 17:45–18:00, AudiMax
Reconstruction of neutrino interactions with silicon strip detectors at the SHiP experiment — •James Webb, Christian Weiser, Yannika Matt, and Elias Bauknecht — Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Physikalisches Institut, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) is a general purpose fixed target facility, currently in the design phase, and to be installed at CERN at the beginning of the next decade. A 400 GeV/c proton beam will be dumped on a heavy target, yielding an expected 6 × 1020 proton-target collisions over 15 years of operation. The beam dump will produce a huge neutrino flux of all three flavours, making this environment ideally suited for performing neutrino physics studies: a key component of the SHiP physics programme.
A proposed detector design for the measurement of neutrino interactions consists of a passive tungsten plane, followed by a pair of silicon strip detectors, oriented such that the pair of strips are directed perpendicularly. Many such layers are envisioned to be stacked-up along the beam axis to maximise the detector mass.
This talk will discuss the potential of such a detector in terms of a tracking detector (track and vertex reconstruction) and a high-granularity calorimeter, with an emphasis on the study of tau neutrino interactions.
Keywords: silicon detectors; collider neutrino physics; tracking; SHiP