@article{257d268af2fe4248a1f2757a4fd43497,
title = "Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons",
abstract = "Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and provide a dark matter candidate. The SHiP experiment will be able to search for HNLs produced in decays of heavy mesons and travelling distances ranging between O(50 m) and tens of kilometers before decaying. We present the sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to a number of HNL{\textquoteright}s benchmark models and provide a way to calculate the SHiP{\textquoteright}s sensitivity to HNLs for arbitrary patterns of flavour mixings. The corresponding tools and data files are also made publicly available.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].",
keywords = "Beyond Standard Model, Fixed target experiments",
author = "{The SHiP collaboration} and C. Ahdida and R. Albanese and A. Alexandrov and A. Anokhina and S. Aoki and G. Arduini and E. Atkin and N. Azorskiy and {Baaltasar Dos Santos}, F. and Back, {J. J.} and A. Bagulya and A. Baranov and F. Bardou and Barker, {G. J.} and M. Battistin and J. Bauche and A. Bay and V. Bayliss and G. Bencivenni and Berdnikov, {Y. A.} and Berdnikov, {A. Y.} and I. Berezkina and M. Bertani and C. Betancourt and I. Bezshyiko and O. Bezshyyko and D. Bick and S. Bieschke and A. Blanco and J. Boehm and M. Bogomilov and K. Bondarenko and Bonivento, {W. M.} and J. Borburgh and A. Boyarsky and R. Brenner and D. Breton and R. Brundler and M. Bruschi and V. B{\"u}scher and A. Buonaura and S. Buontempo and S. Cadeddu and A. Calcaterra and M. Calviani and M. Campanelli and M. Casolino and N. Charitonidis and P. Chau and Park, {S. K.}",
note = "Funding Information: Article funded by SCOAP3. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, The Author(s).",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP04(2019)077",
language = "English",
volume = "2019",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1126-6708",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "4",
}