Publications by Nikolaos Charitonidis

New Capabilities of the FLUKA Multi-Purpose Code

Nikolaos Charitonidis, André Donadon Servelle, Philippe Jean Schoofs, Francesco Cerutti

FLUKA is a general purpose Monte Carlo code able to describe the transport and interaction of any particle and nucleus type in complex geometries over an energy range extending from thermal neutrons to ultrarelativistic hadron collisions. It has many diffe ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

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

Probing the explanation of the muon (g-2) anomaly and thermal light dark matter with the semi-visible dark photon channel

Nikolaos Charitonidis, Philip Crivelli

We report the results of a search for a new vector boson (A') decaying into two dark matter particles chi 1 chi 2 of different mass. The heavier chi(2) particle subsequently decays to chi 1 and an off-shell Dark Photon A'* -> e(+)e(-). For a sufficiently l ...

SPRINGER2021

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 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

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

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

Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons

Lesya Shchutska, Aurelio Bay, Elena Graverini, Guido Haefeli, Florian Maria Wurm, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Alexey Boyarsky, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Leo Redi, Oleg Ruchayskiy

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 an ...

Springer Nature2019

The beam lines design for the CERN neutrino platform in the CERN north area and an outlook on their expected performance

Nikolaos Charitonidis

In the framework of the CERN Neutrino Platform project, extensions to the existing SPS North Area secondary beam lines "H2" and "H4", able to provide low-energy charged particles in the momentum range from 0.4 to 12 GeV/c, have been designed. The parameter ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Instrument intercomparison in the pulsed neutron fieldsat the CERN HiRadMat facility

Nikolaos Charitonidis, Daniel Perrin

An intercomparison of the performances of active neutron detectors was carried out in pulsed neutron fields in the new HiRadMat facility at CERN. Five detectors were employed: four of them (two ionization chambers and two rem counters) are routinely employ ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014