Neutrino physics with the SHiP experiment at CERN

The SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) experiment has been recently proposed at CERN to be operated in beam dump mode at the SPS, with the aim of investigating the Hidden Sector searching for long-lived particles in the GeV mass range. The beam dump will be a copious source of hidden particles, together with active neutrinos of all flavours. The SHiP detector is designed to detect feebly interacting particles and to perform precision studies of neutrino and anti-neutrino interactions, too. In five years run 2 × 1020 protons on target will be delivered, leading to the first direct observation of tau anti-neutrinos. The and vτ deep-inelastic scattering cross-sections will be evaluated with a statistics a thousand times larger than currently available. The F4 and F5 structure functions, never measured so far, will be also extracted and charm physics studies will be realised with improved accuracy with respect to the past, thus improving the sensitivity to the s quark distribution in the nucleon.This paper will focus on the neutrino physics potential of the SHiP experiment, including its sensitivity to Heavy Neutral Leptons searches.