Upcoming business opportunities with the SHiP experiment at CERN
Date and time
Wednesday, 13 November 2024 12:00 - 15:00
Location
Hubben / Uppsala Science Park
Dag Hammarskjölds väg 38,
752 37 Uppsala,
(Google maps)
An engaged and captivating speaker, project leader Richard Jacobsson will be giving us an introduction into the SHiP experiment, a new CERN experiment with a construction budget of around SEK 1.5 billion. He will also be talking about SHiP's conceptual design and performance, and how Swedish researchers and companies can get involved in development and construction of the experiment.
Business opportunities
Make sure you are on board when the SHiP project actively starts looking for new industrial and academic partners to develop and construct the facility and the detector.
The SHiP project
The SHiP project is the largest project approved at CERN since the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), and is currently a collaboration between CERN and 33 research institutes and 5 associated institutes from a total of 15 countries. The aim is to begin construction of the facility in 2027, and to start producing data before CERN’s two-year stop of the accelerators in 2034-2035.
Please note that the event will be held in Swedish.
Agenda
12:00
Informal lunch with networking opportunities
13:00
Short welcome address
13:15
Presentation about the research in the SHiP project, and business opportunities for academia and industry
14:30
Discussion and questions
15:00
Event ends with fika
SHiP sets sail to chart hidden sector
In March 2024, CERN selected a new experiment called SHiP to search for hidden particles using high-intensity proton beams from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS).
Interest in hidden sectors has grown in recent years, given the absence of evidence for, yet the existence of, several phenomena (such as dark matter, neutrino masses and the cosmic baryon asymmetry) that can only be explained by new particles or interactions.
The SHiP experiment aims to produce and detect particles that can address a number of the unsolved mysteries in particle physics. For example, new models may possibly provide a dark matter candidate, explain inflation of the early Universe, explain the pattern of neutrino oscillations and masses, and explain the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe.
In the event of a new discovery, SHiP’s sensitivity would not just establish the existence of a new particle, but also identify its properties. Such a discovery would not only have an enormous impact on particle physics but also on cosmology and astrophysics.
