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The active muon shield in the SHiP experiment
| dc.contributor.author | SHiP collaboration (231 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Blanco, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fonte, P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Franco, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopes, L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-04T12:32:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-04T12:32:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-05-17 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-04T12:32:15Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The SHiP experiment is designed to search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 GeV/c proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. An essential task for the experiment is to keep the Standard Model background level to less than 0.1 event after $2\times 10^{20}$ protons on target. In the beam dump, around $10^{11}$ muons will be produced per second. The muon rate in the spectrometer has to be reduced by at least four orders of magnitude to avoid muon-induced combinatorial background. A novel active muon shield is used to magnetically deflect the muons out of the acceptance of the spectrometer. This paper describes the basic principle of such a shield, its optimization and its performance. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | JINST 12 (2017) P05011; DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/12/05/P05011 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/05/P05011 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27304 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation | From Fermi to Planck : a bottom up approach | |
| dc.title | The active muon shield in the SHiP experiment | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.awardTitle | From Fermi to Planck : a bottom up approach | |
| oaire.awardURI | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/694896/EU | |
| oaire.fundingStream | H2020 | |
| project.funder.identifier | http://doi.org/10.13039/501100008530 | |
| project.funder.name | European Commission | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article | |
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