LIP in the R&D for SHiP
"Colleagues from LIP-Coimbra tested at CERN a new RPC concept for particle time-of-flight measurement, within development work for the future SHiP experiment"
Witin the R&D (research & development) program for the future SHiP experiment, LIP members tested last week at CERN a new RPC concept for particle time-of-flight measurement, at the PS (Proton Synchrotron) T9 beamline.
Initially developed by the LIP group for the Pierre Auger Observatory, this new RPC concept is now applied in time-of-flight measurement. With time resolutions clearly below 100 ps in large area (~ 2 m²), and at low cost, it will allow to cover large areas in future high-energy experiments.
Resistive plate chambers (RPCs) are robust detectors, adaptable to a wide range of applications, and providing an excellent measure of the arrival time of particles. The LIP-Coimbra RPC group is a world leader in this area.
SHiP is a new general-purpose experiment to be installed in a beam dump facility at the SPS to search for hidden particles as predicted by a very large number of recently elaborated models of Hidden Sectors which are capable of accommodating dark matter, neutrino oscillations, and the origin of the full baryon asymmetry in the Universe.