Publications by Nikolaos Charitonidis

New Capabilities of the FLUKA Multi-Purpose Code

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

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

Aurelio Bay, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Guido Haefeli, Alexey Boyarsky, Hans Dijkstra, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Lesya Shchutska, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Jean-Loup Tastet, Sergei Smirnov, Anton Petrov, Inar Timiryasov, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Elena Graverini, Ekaterina Kuznetsova

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

Aurelio Bay, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Guido Haefeli, Alexey Boyarsky, Hans Dijkstra, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Lesya Shchutska, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Jean-Loup Tastet, Sergei Smirnov, Anton Petrov, Inar Timiryasov, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Elena Graverini, Ekaterina Kuznetsova

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

Sebastian Gerlach, Aurelio Bay, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Guido Haefeli, Alexey Boyarsky, Hans Dijkstra, Sun Hee Kim, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Lesya Shchutska, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Jean-Loup Tastet, Sergei Smirnov, Anton Petrov, Inar Timiryasov, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Elena Graverini, Ekaterina Kuznetsova

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

Sebastian Gerlach, Aurelio Bay, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Guido Haefeli, Alexey Boyarsky, Hans Dijkstra, Sun Hee Kim, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Lesya Shchutska, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Jean-Loup Tastet, Sergei Smirnov, Anton Petrov, Inar Timiryasov, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Elena Graverini, Ekaterina Kuznetsova

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

Aurelio Bay, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Guido Haefeli, Alexey Boyarsky, Hans Dijkstra, Sun Hee Kim, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Lesya Shchutska, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Jean-Loup Tastet, Sergei Smirnov, Anton Petrov, Inar Timiryasov, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Elena Graverini, Ekaterina Kuznetsova

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

Florian Maria Wurm, Aurelio Bay, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Guido Haefeli, Alexey Boyarsky, Hans Dijkstra, Sun Hee Kim, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Lesya Shchutska, Adriano Pastore, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Johannes Richard Cornelis Geerit Kruis, Erica Manfredi, Sargis Hakobyan, Eirini Koukovini Platia, Jean-Loup Tastet, Sergei Smirnov, Anton Petrov, Inar Timiryasov, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Federico Leo Redi, Elena Graverini, Ekaterina Kuznetsova

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

Daniel Perrin, Nikolaos Charitonidis

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

Design Optimisation of a High Intensity Beam Facility and Feasibility Experiment of a Solid Fragmented Target

Nikolaos Charitonidis

EPFL2014

FIRST YEAR OF OPERATIONS IN THE HIRADMAT IRRADIATION FACILITY AT CERN

Nikolaos Charitonidis

HiRadMat (High Irradiation to Materials) is a new facility at CERN constructed in 2011, designed to provide high-intensity pulsed beams to an irradiation area where material samples as well as accelerator component assemblies can be tested. The facility us ...

2013

An experiment to test advanced materials impacted by intense proton pulses at CERN HiRadMat facility

Alessandro Masi, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Francesco Cerutti

Predicting the consequences of highly energetic particle beams impacting protection devices as collimators or high power target stations is a fundamental issue in the design of state-of-the-art facilities for high-energy particle physics. These complex dyn ...

Elsevier2013

Experimental study and FLUKA simulations of a prototype micromegas chamber in a mixed neutron and photon radiation field

Nikolaos Charitonidis, Francesco Cerutti

Detectors based on the micromegas principle have already been used in several atomic, nuclear and particle physics experiments. They have also been proposed as one of the options to upgrade the ATLAS muon spectrometer in the very forward/backward region. T ...

2012

AN EXPERIMENT ON HYDRODYNAMIC TUNNELLING OF THE SPS HIGH INTENSITY PROTON BEAM AT THE HiRadMat FACILITY

Juan Blanco Sancho, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Rudiger Schmidt

2012