Mandate
The working group analyses the requirements and provides support for the experiments attributed to the working group, including design of secondary beam lines and integration in the existing SPS and PS experimental areas, in view of the submission of the proposals to the relevant committees. Similar support will be also provided for the study on novel neutrino beam lines. The working group evaluates the feasibility, compatibility, infrastructure needs, approximate costs and resource requirements from CERN and collects all this information for the PBC-A&T Committee.
The following experiments are followed by the PBC: NA64e/µ/h, DiCE/NA60+, HIKE, SHADOWS, AMBER (RF-separated beams), SBN/L, ENUBET and NuTAG. Representatives from experiments already followed-up by the SPSC using the same areas and/or requiring shared physics studies will be part of the working group.
Objectives
Deliverables of the working group include in particular a conceptual beamline design for the high intensity operation of HIKE (formerly NA62x4/KLEVER) and integration of SHADOWS, a conceptual design of a beam line providing RF separated hadron beams with increased purity for AMBER, and an integration concept for the DiCE/NA60+ experiment in EHN1, as well as a design for a tagged neutrino beam (SBN/L/ENUBET/NuTAG).
Key Documents
- Report from the Conventional Beams Working Group to the Physics Beyond Colliders Study and to the 2026 European Strategy for Particle Physics Update, Yellow Report, CERN-2025-004.
- Report from the Conventional Beams Working Group to the Physics Beyond Collider Study and to the European Strategy for Particle Physics, Second Edition, CERN-PBC-REPORT-2022-002. Export citation as: BibTeX.
Working Group Members
Conveners: Markus Brugger, Johannes Bernhard
Scientific Secretary: Silvia Schuh
Members: Dipanwita Banerjee, Augusto Ceccucci (SHADOWS), Nikos Charitonidis, Paolo Crivelli (NA64), Oleg Denisov (AMBER), Babette Döbrich (HIKE/NA62 Beam Dump), Jan Friedrich (AMBER), Marek Gazdzicki (NA61), Lau Gatignon, Sergei Gninenko (NA64), Yacine Kadi, Seweryn Kowalski (NA61), Gaia Lanfranchi (FIPS/BSM), Cristina Lazzeroni (HIKE), Andrea Longhin (ENUBET), Clara Matteuzzi (MUonE), Matthew Moulson (HIKE/KLEVER), Mathieu Perrin-Terrin (NuTAG), Enrico Scomparin (DiCE/NA60+), Tommaso Spadaro (HIKE/NA62 Beam Dump), Silvia Schuh, Florian Stummer, Francesco Terranova (ENUBET), Gianluca Usai (NA60++), Graziano Venanzoni (MUonE), Maarten van Dijk.
