The Search For Hidden Particles (SHiP) at CERN – with Prof Golutvin
public in-person lecture
An enlightening talk from the founder and spokesperson of the Search for Hidden Particles experiment at CERN.
Professor Andrey Golutvin FRS - Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Imperial College London; Founder and spokesperson of the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment at CERN.
The SHiP Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for feebly interacting GeV-scale particles. SHiP complements the world-wide program of New Physics searches by covering a large region of parameter space which cannot be addressed by other experiments.
The SHiP detector is sensitive both to decay and scattering signatures of models with heavy neutral leptons, dark photons, dark scalars, light dark matter and other super-weakly interacting particles. In addition, SHiP can perform unprecedented measurements with tau neutrinos.
Professor Golutvin is recognised for his outstanding international contributions to ‘heavy flavour’ physics. This branch of study concerns subatomic particles called quarks that are heavier than other quarks. These ‘flavours’ of quark are known as charm (c) and beauty (b) quarks.
He played a leading role in several ground-breaking experiments in heavy flavour physics since the 1980s, including the ARGUS experiment at DESY, Hamburg, and the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN. These experiments have revealed intriguing hints that beauty quarks hold the key to why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe, allowing everything to physically exist.
He is now working on the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator. This experiment is designed to look for new heavy particles that only weakly interact with other particles, potentially answering the mystery of why the LHC has failed to find new heavy particles. Finding these could boost several areas of particle and astrophysics, such as providing a dark matter candidate or explaining the inflation of the early Universe.
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