Researcher

Nick Van Remortel

Research Expertise:My research focuses on the study on the experimental verification of the fundamental laws of physics, the study of elementary particles and the study of the universe by means of gravitational waves. Practically this research is organised in large international consortia and reserach infrastructures, such as CERN in Geneva, DESY in Hamburg, Fermilab in Chicago, ... In some cases it is possible to perform local expperiments, such as teh SoLid neutrino detector located at the SCK-CEN in Mol. Recently I am promoting the construction of a 3rd generation gravitational wave telescope, the Einstein Telescope, to be realised in the border area between Belgium, The netherlands and Germany.

Disciplines:Astronomy and space sciences, Atomic and molecular physics, Classical physics, Condensed matter physics and nanophysics, Elementary particle and high energy physics, Materials physics, Mathematical physics, Nuclear physics, Optical physics, Physics of gases, plasmas and electric discharges, Quantum physics, Other physical sciences, Other natural sciences

Research techniques:I use large research infrastructure that is typically loccated at national or international research laboratories: CERN, EGO, SCK-CEN, ... In elementary particle physics particle accelerators. combined with huge particle detectors are used, such as the CMS detector at the LHC. I have worked with more or less the largest accelerators that were in operation during the last 20 years. In the study of neutrinos we built the SoLid detector near the BR2 reserach reactor of the SCK-CEN. Finally I am member of the LIGO-VIRGO_KAGRA consortium that exploits a collection of Gravitational wave telescopes located in the USA, Italy and Japan. IN teh development of gravitaional wave hardware, I am partner i nthe ETpathfinder R&D fieldlab that we co-manage in Maastricht.

Users of research expertise:Particle physics detectors are widely used in (nuclear) medecine, materials research, homeland security and non-proliferation inspection.