Neutrino physics with the SHiP experiment at CERN

SHiP ( Search for Hidden Particles ) is a beam-dump experiment at CERN SPS conceived to search for long-lived exotic particles with masses below a few GeV / c$^2$ , produced in the decays of heavy hadrons. The abundant production of neutrinos in such processes makes SHiP also ideally suited for $\nu$ physics studies. A dedicated detector, consisting of a target made of nuclear emulsion - lead bricks alternating with planes of electronic trackers, and a muon spectrometer, has been designed to provide the first direct observation of the $\overline{\nu}_{\tau}$ and measure the $\nu_{\tau}$ and $\overline{\nu}_{\tau}$ cross-sections.