In this talk, I will present the new opportunities offered by the intensity-frontier experimental facility BDF/SHiP that was approved by CERN in 2024 for the future physics programme of the new SPS High-Intensity facility in the ECN3 experimental area. The SHiP experiment is designed to operate in beam-dump mode to generically search for Feebly Interacting Particles at the GeV-scale and perform measurements in neutrino physics. BDF/SHiP complements the worldwide program of New Physics searches by exploring a large region of parameter space that cannot be addressed by other experiments, and which reaches several orders of magnitude below existing bounds by efficiently exploiting the currently available 4x10^19 protons per year at 400 GeV for up to 15 years. The SHiP experiment has sensitivity to both decay and scattering signatures of models with feebly interacting particles, such as dark-sector mediators and light dark matter. In neutrino physics, BDF/SHiP can perform unprecedented measurements with tau neutrinos. In this seminar I will introduce the physics motivation and prospects and discuss the experimental and technological challenges.
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