Projects
Investigating the role of DNA methylation in the failing and in the ageing heart KU Leuven
Ageing is the greatest risk factor for heart failure. Heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes, CMs) experience ageing-associated alterations leading to a lower functional output, caused by (among others) maladaptive remodelling of the myocardium, including hypertrophy of individual cardiomyocytes. CMs are long-lived (decades) and have limited proliferative capacity. Transcriptional variation (heterogeneity) between CMs increase with age, with ...
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 ...
SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: High-energy physics (HEP@VUB). Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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.
Unlocking the charm-Higgs coupling at the LHC. University of Antwerp
Unlocking the charm-Higgs coupling at the LHC Ghent University
Our celebrated discovery of the Higgs boson by the LHC experiments at CERN in 2012 completed the collection of elementary particles that build up matter around us. To confirm its central place in our understanding of particle physics, the interaction strength (or coupling) of the Higgs boson to all three families of quarks and leptons must be measured and compared to theoretical predictions. Using the proton collisions collected by the CMS ...
Experimental particle physics at the energy frontier Ghent University
In 2009 the experiments at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator facility at CERN (Geneva) became operational. In this accelerator protons are accelerated to energies up to 7 TeV. In collisions of protons with this energy new phenomena are expected: new particles such as the Higgs-boson or supersymmetry particles. In this project we carry out precision measurements on the top quark and a search for signals of supersymmetry.
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 ...
Precision physics with W and Z bosons: vector boson scattering, effective field theory, luminosity Ghent University
Despite its large success in describing a wide range of results obtained at human-built experiments, the standard model (SM) of particle physics is known to be incomplete, and thus the quest for new physics beyond the SM (BSM) is ongoing. A crucial tool is the precision measurement of SM properties to constrain small deviations from SM predictions that could hint at BSM physics at much larger energy scales. In this project, the vector boson ...