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The SHiP Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose intensity-frontier experimental facility operating in beam dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for feebly interacting GeV-scale particles and to perform measurements in neutrino physics. SHiP complements the worldwide program of New Physics searches by exploring a large region of parameter space, which cannot be addressed by other experiments, and which reaches several orders of magnitude below existing bounds. The SHiP detector is sensitive to decay and scattering signatures of models with heavy neutral leptons, dark photons, dark scalars, light dark matter, and other super-weakly interacting particles. In neutrino physics, SHiP can perform unprecedented measurements with tau neutrinos and neutrino-induced charm production. Following the Technical Proposal submitted in 2015, the subsequent three-year Comprehensive Design Study, and the recent study of BDF/SHiP in existing beam facilities around the SPS, we restate the motivation and report on the implementation and physics performance of BDF/SHiP in the SPS ECN3 beam facility.
