  The Solar Hidden Photon Search (SHIPS) is a joint astroparticle project of
the Hamburger Sternwarte and DESY. The main target is to detect the solar
emission of a new species of particles, so called Hidden Photons (HPs). Due to
kinetic mixing, photons and HPs can convert into each other as they propagate.
A small number of solar HPs - originating from photon to HP oscillations in the
interior of the Sun - can be converted into photons in a long vacuum pipe
pointing to the Sun - the SHIPS helioscope.
