Projects
Optimization of on-line spectroscopy on raw milk for biomonitoring cow health. KU Leuven
Use of expert knowledge for improved quality monitoring of food colloids with Vis/NIR spectroscopic techniques. KU Leuven
Quality monitoring of food colloids during production and processing is important to satisfy the increasing quality demands of the retail and consumers. Moreover, online measurement techniques could support early detection of altering product quality and reduce food losses. Optical spectroscopic techniques measure the interaction of light with the product. As the measured signal(s) contain both chemical and physical product information, while ...
Participation in the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) project in CERN Ghent University
In this project the required contribution of the Gent research group "Experimental Particle Physics" to the CMS-experiment is requested.
Search for supersymmetry with 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the CMS detector Ghent University
With the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, announced in July
2012, decades of searches for this cornerstone of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics
concluded with a triumph of science. Despite its remarkable success in describing the experimental
data so far, there exist compelling reasons to expect new physics to extend the SM. One of the most
studied extensions is ...
Search for a sterile neutrino using a short-baseline oscillation experiment at the BR2 research reactor Ghent University
The SoLid collaboration, involving the universities of Gent and Antwerpen, will
construct a short baseline reactor neutrino detector at the BR2 reactor of the SCK in
Mol. The objective of this project is to participate in the construction of the detector, the
measurements at the BR2 reactor, and the analysis of the experiment. Ultimately this
research will prove or disprove the existence a new kind ...
Sabbatical Thomas Van Riet: A new perspective on the nature of dark energy KU Leuven
The operation of the universe remains a mystery on the very largest scale (cosmology) and the smallest scale (elementary particle physics). This is not a stumbling block to the development of most science and technology, because it focuses on the length scales between the largest and the smallest. However, to get an answer to the fundamental questions it is crucial to understand the extremes. What are the fundamental building blocks ...
New approaches to string theory dualities and their applications Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Uncovering the higher symmetries of quantum fields and branes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
physical system. When the phenomena we study are far removed
from human experience, understanding their symmetries can be the
first step towards understanding the physics, which is an old heuristic
for particle physicists. More recently it was realised that higher
symmetries (whose charged objects are strings or higherdimensional "branes", rather than ...