The SHiP Collaboration

SHiP is built and run by an international collaboration of universities and research institutes. Together they design the detector, build and test its subsystems, develop the software and simulation, and will operate the experiment and analyse its data.

The SHiP collaboration at a recent collaboration meeting.

The collaboration today

The collaboration is preparing for its Technical design reports, the final step before commissioning and is in the final prototyping stages to that effect, with all subsystems being nearly complete.

Organisation

The Collaboration Board is the collaboration’s decision-making body, with one representative per member institute. Day-to-day scientific leadership rests with the Spokesperson, while technical coordination oversees the construction and integration of the detector. Physics and detector working groups carry out the work itself.

Member institutes

Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

Milennium Institute for Subatomic Physics, Santiago, Chile

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Hefei National Science Center, Hefei, China

Niels Bohr Institute, Kopenhagen, Denmark

IJClab, Paris, France

Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Constructor University, Bremen, Germany

University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, Germany

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet, Mainz, Germany

University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

Universita e INFN, Bari, Italy

Universita e INFN, Bologna, Italy

Universita e INFN, Cagliari, Italy

Universita Federico II e INFN, Naples, Italy

Institute of Nuclear Physics, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

LIP, Coimbra, Portugal

Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia

Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Ankara University

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

University College London, London, United Kingdom

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

JINR, Dubna, Russia

Associated institutes:

Universidad Andres Bello, CCHEN Comision Chilena de Energia Nuclear, Federico Santa Maria Technical University and Universidad de La Serena hosted by Milennium Institute for Subatomic Physics (Chile).Universita degli Studi del Sannio di Benevento, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Universita della Basilicata di Potenza, hosted by University Federico II (Italy), Gwangju National University of Education, Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea).

Working groups

• Physics
• Software
• Facility
• Muon shield
• Scattering detector
• Upstream background tagger
• Surrounding background tagger
• Tracker
• Spectrometer magnet
• Timing detector
• Calorimeter system

Joining SHiP

Please refer to our collaboration website: https://ship.web.cern.ch/contact-information/

Students and early-career researchers

SHiP benefits from a wide array of talented and enthusiastic young researchers, with even newcomers to the collaboration describing its atmosphere as akin to a (admittedly large) family. Young researchers within SHiP benefit from the opportunity to shape an experiment and its associated physics program from its early stages, allowing for significant experience to be accrued quickly.

Meetings and internal resources

Collaboration meetings, working group meetings and internal documentation are hosted on the collaboration site and on Indico. A CERN account is required for most internal material.