Projects
Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Particle Physics Group
To unravel the most fundamental building blocks of matter and how they interact to form the universe around us, is a longterm fascination and challenge of humanity. Participation in the CMS experiment at the LHC particle collider at CERN provides access to the forefront of this international research. With our recent discovery of the Higgs particle, all elementary particles of the Standard Model of particle physics are now observed. We started a ...
The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Exploring elementary particles and their interactions is an age-old endeavour of humanity. With the 27 km circumference Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the monumental detectors around it, scientists from all over the world have access to the most advanced tools to continue this exploration. A major achievement was the experimental confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson particle in 2012, some 50 years after it had been predicted ...
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN Vrije Universiteit Brussel
University of Antwerp, Ghent University, Elementary Particle Physics, Physics
To unravel the most fundamental building blocks of matter and how they interact to form the universe around us, is a longterm fascination and challenge of humanity.
Participation in the CMS experiment at the LHC particle collider at CERN provides access to the forefront of this international research. With our recent discovery of the Higgs particle, all elementary particles of the Standard Model of particle physics are now observed. We ...
Participation in the CMS experiment at the LHC particle collider at CERN provides access to the forefront of this international research. With our recent discovery of the Higgs particle, all elementary particles of the Standard Model of particle physics are now observed. We ...
New physics in interplay with top quarks: bump hunting in topquark-pair production with two additional quarks at the CMS experiment Vrije Universiteit Brussel
With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the Large Hadron
Collider, the last missing particle as predicted by the standard model
(SM) of particle physics was discovered. Nevertheless, there are
several open questions for which the SM lacks a suitable
explanation. An example is the question as to why the top quark is
significantly heavier than all other known elementary particles of the
SM. Many ...
Collider, the last missing particle as predicted by the standard model
(SM) of particle physics was discovered. Nevertheless, there are
several open questions for which the SM lacks a suitable
explanation. An example is the question as to why the top quark is
significantly heavier than all other known elementary particles of the
SM. Many ...
The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. University of Antwerp
Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Particle Physics Group
Exploring elementary particles and their interactions is an age-old endeavour of humanity. With the 27 km circumference Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the monumental detectors around it, scientists from all over the world have access to the most advanced tools to continue this exploration. A major achievement was the experimental confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson particle in 2012, some 50 years after it had been predicted ...
Measurement of Higgs boson decays to charm quark antiquark pairs in association with top quark antiquark pair production at the CMS experiment. Ghent University
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 completed the standard model (SM) of particle physics. With the addition of the Higgs boson the SM becomes one of the most successful theories to date, as such its predictions agree with the experimental data at the energy scales probed so far remarkably well. On the other hand there exist several observed phenomena in nature, such as dark matter, matter antimatter ...
Measurement of the charm quark Yukawa coupling with the CMS experiment at the LHC. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics describes the elementary particles that we have so far discovered, together with the fundamental forces that act amongst them. The only consistent way to describe how particles obtain their mass, is through their interactions with the Brout-Englert-Higgs field, and its corresponding H boson. The discovery of this boson in 2012 marks a milestone for the CMS and ATLAS collaborations that investigate ...
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
Contribution to the design and construction of a detector for the CMS experiment at the Large HAdron Collider (LHC) at CERN Ghent University
Contribution of the Gent research group "Experimental Particle Physics" to the construction of the CMS-detector at the LHC-accelerator at CERN.