Projects
Study of µTCA as a new standard in the design of FPGA-based embedded (data acquisition) systems. University of Antwerp
Coulomb excitation of Polonium isotopes. KU Leuven
The neutron-deficient polonium isotopes, with only 2 protons outside the Z = 82 shell closure, are situated in an interesting region of the nuclear chart. In the neighboring lead (Z = 82) and mercury (Z = 80) isotopes, experimental and theoretical efforts identified evidence of shape coexistence. Shape coexistence is the remarkable phenomenon in which two or more distinct types of deformation occur in states of the same angular momentum and ...
Study of the heavy flavour content of the proton with the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. University of Antwerp
Determination of recoil terms in beta decay. KU Leuven
Precise measurements of the so-called beta emission asymmetry in pure Gamow-Teller beta decay areasensitive probe to search for an as yet unobserved tensor component in the weak interaction. Recently, new development in our group have lead to the most precise measurements of this type ever performed. Further developements should lead to an even higher precision. At the current precision level of 1% additional, small correction terms that are ...
Applications of flux compactifications of string theory. KU Leuven
Search for ADD gravitons in the CMS experiment at the LHC. University of Antwerp
Search for a tensor component in the weak interaction Hamiltonian KU Leuven
The topic of this thesis is the precision measurement of the beta-asymmetry parameter A</>. It was measuredin the decay ...
Measurement of the electric dipole moment of the neutron. KU Leuven
Dynamics of Quantum Correlations KU Leuven
The main aim of this thesis is to study quantum dynamics, with a focus on irreversible, dissipative dynamics, by collecting repeated observations and arranging them to form a process. This leads to quantum states of extended models with some simplifying features. The models explored here are quantum spins on Fermionic lattices and chains of quantum spins. We focus in particular on the randomising properties of the dynamics.
The thesis ...