Projects
Search for Interactions of Top Quarks with Dark Matter with the CMS Experiment at the LHC. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Measurement of the double parton scattering in a four-jet scenario in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the CMS experiment. University of Antwerp
Physics of heavy particles with the CMS experiment at the LHC accelerator Ghent University
Contribution of the Gent research group "Experimental Particle Physics" to the construction of the CMS detector at the LHC accelerator at CERN
FLAMENCO: Flavor, Lepton number, And Mass Explorations of Neutrinos at the COmpact muon solenoid Ghent University
Neutrinos, the subatomic particles that play a fundamental role in everyday nuclear processes like the solar fusion cycle, are very much a mystery despite their discovery already 60 years ago. Within the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the widely successful description of particles at the smallest scales, neutrinos are massless. As a result, the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of extremely tiny neutrino masses represents one of the greatest ...
Probing the Charm-Higgs Yukawa at the LHC. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
research into building and verifying a theoretical framework, the
Standard Model, that encompasses all current knowledge in particle
physics. The crucial role of the Higgs boson in the acquisition of
mass by fundamental particles has now been established. At the
same time, its very existence has opened up new profound
questions, for example ...
High speed, radiation-tolerant optical and wireline communication circuits KU Leuven
Introduction Radiation-hard high-speed data links play an ever-growing role in modern High Energy Physics experiments. The state-of-the-art, marked by the lpGBT development for the LHC Phase-II upgrades, supports 10 Gb/s transmission and withstands radiation levels of 1 MGy and 10e+15 neq/cm². This is however already insufficient for some of the HL-LHC detectors where, for example, the pixel optoelectronics installed on the first strip layer ...
Search for the scalar partners of the top quark at the LHC Ghent University
After the triumph of the Higgs boson discovery in the 2010-2012 LHC running period, the searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model are now the highest priority of the LHC experiments. In large classes of new physics scenarios (scalar) partners of the heaviest known particle, the top quark, play an important role. A dedicated experimental search for such scalar partners with the CMS detector at the LHC is proposed.
Search for new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics Ghent University
In this project we plan research with the CMS-detector at CERN, Geneva, the IceCube observatory at the South Pole, and the SoLid-detector in SCK.CEN, Mol. The recurring theme in every workpackage is the search for deviations from the Standard Model of particle physics, showing the way to new physics beyond this model.