Publications by Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp

Reconstruction of 400 GeV/c proton interactions with the SHiP-charm project

Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Federico Leo Redi, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante

The SHiP-charm project was proposed to measure the associated charm production induced by 400 GeV/c protons in a thick target, including the contribution from cascade production. An optimisation run was performed in July 2018 at CERN SPS using a hybrid set ...

2024

Track reconstruction and matching between emulsion and silicon pixel detectors for the SHiP-charm experiment

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Elena Graverini, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Federico Leo Redi, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante

In July 2018 an optimization run for the proposed charm cross section measurement for SHiP was performed at the CERN SPS. A heavy, moving target instrumented with nuclear emulsion films followed by a silicon pixel tracker was installed in front of the Goli ...

2022

The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Elena Graverini, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Federico Leo Redi, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for light, feebly interacting particles. In the baseline configuration, the SHiP exp ...

2022

Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to light dark matter

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Elena Graverini, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Federico Leo Redi, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante

Dark matter is a well-established theoretical addition to the Standard Model supported by many observations in modern astrophysics and cosmology. In this context, the existence of weakly interacting massive particles represents an appealing solution to the ...

Springer Nature2021

Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to dark photons decaying to a pair of charged particles

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Elena Graverini, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Alexey Boyarsky, Federico Leo Redi, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp

Dark photons are hypothetical massive vector particles that could mix with ordinary photons. The simplest theoretical model is fully characterised by only two parameters: the mass of the dark photon m(gamma)D and its mixing parameter with the photon, epsil ...

2021

The magnet of the scattering and neutrino detector for the SHiP experiment at CERN

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Elena Graverini, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Alexey Boyarsky, Federico Leo Redi, Sun Hee Kim, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment proposal at CERN demands a dedicated dipole magnet for its scattering and neutrino detector. This requires a very large volume to be uniformly magnetized at B > 1.2 T, with constraints regarding the inner i ...

2020

Measurement of the muon flux from 400 GeV/c protons interacting in a thick molybdenum/tungsten target

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Elena Graverini, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Alexey Boyarsky, Federico Leo Redi, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp

The SHiP experiment is proposed 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. About 1011muons per spill will be produced in the dump. To design the experiment s ...

2020

The experimental facility for the Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Alexey Boyarsky, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov, Sun Hee Kim

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has shown that the CERN SPS accelerator with its 400 GeV/c proton beam offers a unique opportunity to explore the Hidden Sector [1-3]. The proposed experiment is an intensity frontier experiment which is ...

2019

Fast simulation of muons produced at the SHiP experiment using Generative Adversarial Networks

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Elena Graverini, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Alexey Boyarsky, Federico Leo Redi, Sun Hee Kim, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Inar Timiryasov

This paper presents a fast approach to simulating muons produced in interactions of the SPS proton beams with the target of the SHiP experiment. The SHIP experiment will be able to search for new long-lived particles produced in a 400 GeV/c SPS proton beam ...

2019

On the statistical physics of chains and rods, with application to multi-scale sequence-dependent DNA modelling

Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp

The complex mechanisms involved in cellular processes have been increasingly understood this past century and the central role of the DNA molecule has been recognized. The base pair sequence along a DNA fragment is observed not only to encode the genomic i ...

EPFL2016