A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case.

Altmannshofer, Wolfgang; Asaka, Takehiko; Batell, Brian; Bezrukov, Fedor; Bondarenko, Kyrylo; Boyarsky, Alexey; Choi, Ki-Young; Corral, Cristóbal; Craig, Nathaniel; Curtin, David; Davidson, Sacha; de Gouvêa, André; Dell’Oro, Stefano; deNiverville, Patrick; Bhupal Dev, P.S.; Dreiner, Herbi; Drewes, Marco; Eijima, Shintaro; Essig, Rouven; Fradette, Anthony; Garbrecht, Björn; Gavela, Belen; Giudice, Gian F.; Goodsell, Mark D.; Gorbunov, Dmitry; Gori, Stefania; Grojean, Christophe; Guffanti, Alberto; Hambye, Thomas; Hansen, Steen H.; Helo, Juan Carlos; Hernandez, Pilar; Ibarra, Alejandro; Ivashko, Artem; Izaguirre, Eder; Jaeckel, Joerg; Jeong, Yu Seon; Kahlhoefer, Felix; Kahn, Yonatan; Katz, Andrey; Kim, Choong Sun; Kovalenko, Sergey; Krnjaic, Gordan; Lyubovitskij, Valery E.; Marcocci, Simone; Mccullough, Matthew; McKeen, David; Mitselmakher, Guenakh; Moch, Sven-Olaf; Mohapatra, Rabindra N.; Morrissey, David E.; Ovchynnikov, Maksym; Paschos, Emmanuel; Pilaftsis, Apostolos; Pospelov, Maxim;...

Abstract

The standard model of elementary particle physics has provided a consistent description of Nature's fundamental constituents and their interactions. Its predictions have been tested and confirmed by numerous experiments. The Large Hadron Collider's runs at 7 and 8 TeV culminated in the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle with the mass of about 126 GeV—the last critical standard model component [1–5]. Thus for the first time we are in the situation when all the particles, needed to explain the results of all previous accelerator experiments have been found. At the same time, no significant deviations from the standard model were found in direct or in indirect searches for new physics (see e.g. the summary of the recent search results in [6–25] and most up-to-date information at [26–29]). For this particular value of the Higgs mass it is possible that the standard model remains mathematically consistent and valid as an effective field theory up to a very high energy scale, possibly all the way to the scale of quantum gravity, the Planck scale [30–32].

Citation

Altmannshofer, W., Asaka, T., Batell, B., Bezrukov, F., Bondarenko, K., Boyarsky, A., …Zurek, K. M. (2016). A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case. Reports on Progress in Physics, 79(12), Article 124201. https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/79/12/124201

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 18, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Oct 24, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Deposit Date: Nov 10, 2016
• Journal: Reports on Progress in Physics
• Print ISSN: 0034-4885
• Electronic ISSN: 1361-6633
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 12
• Article Number: 124201
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/79/12/124201