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Forest Conversion Experiment Pijnven-Bosland. Setting-up a large-scaled tree-diversity experiment, part of the international FORBIO forest ecosystem research project Ghent University

Kris Verheyen
Department of Forest and water management

This project aims at establishing a large-scaled experiment that will allow to quantify the effect of tree species diversity on forest ecosystem functioning. The experiment will be established on a 8 ha site situated in Hechtel-Eksel, in the state forest Pijnven. In total 25 000 trees of five different species will be planted.

Towards the discovery or exclusion of neutrino oscillations at short baseline with the SoLid experiment. University of Antwerp

Nick Van Remortel
Particle Physics Group
Our current understanding of the most elementary building blocks of matter and their interactions is summarized in the Standard Model of particle physics. Within this Standard Model, neutrinos are the most puzzling. Decades of experiments have lead to the conclusion that neutrinos have a very small mass. Due to this small mass, a neutrino of a certain flavor has a non-zero probability to oscillate to a neutrino of another flavor. Oscillations ...

Enhanced silicate weathering for climate change mitigation – a mesocosm experiment. University of Antwerp

Sara Vicca
Ecosystem Management, Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change
Besides rapid decarbonization of all sectors, limiting global warming to well below 2°C will also require active removal of CO2 from the atmosphere. A number of so-called negative emission technologies (NETs) have been proposed for this purpose, including several land-based solutions using natural processes. A promising but yet poorly studied land-based NET is accelerated silicate weathering (EW). When silicates weather, a slow dissolution ...

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. University of Antwerp

Pierre M S J Van Mechelen
Particle Physics Group
The quest to explore and understand the fundamental building blocks of Nature has intrigued humanity since ever. Revealing the way they build up the matter around us as well as the Universe is the topic of particle physics. Our state-of-the-art theory in particle physics does not provide an empirically verified answer to key questions like how these particles acquire their observed mass nor for the abundance of Dark Matter in the Universe. ...

Downsizing and the Survivor Syndrome - A Field Experiment KU Leuven

Heiner Schumacher
Department of Economics, Leuven
While layoffs are often necessary for growth in a dynamic economy, they are discussed controversially in the general public and in the media. A significant psychological literature suggests that there may be costs associated with a decrease in work morale and motivation of those who remain employed in the company (the so-called survivor syndrome). In this project, we use a field experiment to study the effect of layoffs on the performance of the ...

R&D towards a High Rate Particle Detector for the CMS Experiment at the LHC Ghent University

Dirk Ryckbosch
Department of Physics and astronomy

In 2009, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worldU+2019s most powerful accelerator became operational, producing mainly proton-proton collisions at multi-TeV center-of-mass energies. This allows experiments, such as the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), to explore the so-far uncharted physics at this energy scale. One of the, in the meantime world-famous results of the first LHC physics run that recently ended, is the discovery a new particle ...

Participation of UA, UGent and VUB in the CERN CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN Ghent University

Dirk Ryckbosch
Department of Physics and astronomy

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the Standard Model (including the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the ATLAS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and a different magnet-system design.

The CMS ...

Towards the discovery or exclusion of neutrino oscillations at short baseline with the SoLid experiment Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Petra Van Mulders, Jorgen D'Hondt
Elementary Particle Physics, Physics
Our current understanding of the most elementary building blocks of matter and their interactions is summarized in the Standard Model of particle physics. Within this Standard Model, neutrinos are the most puzzling. Decades of experiments have lead to the conclusion that neutrinos have a very small mass. Due to this small mass, a neutrino of a certain flavor has a non-zero probability to oscillate to a neutrino of another flavor. Oscillations ...

Statistical Network-based Inference for Proteomics Experiment Reasoning. KU Leuven

Jan Ramon
Informatics Section

Experimental proteomics is a promising and growing domain, as state-of-the-art equipment allows for accurate, fast and environment-friendly research and diagnostics. However, current high performance experimental equipment is often complex, making setting up experiments and interpreting the results non-trivial.

Currently available models often are inaccurate, consider a single experimental step in isolation, and don't adapt to the ...