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Search for Heavy Neutrinos using the CMS detector at the LHC Ghent University

Didar Dobur
Department of Physics and astronomy

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently the most powerful particle accelerator in the world,

delivering proton-proton collision in a lab environment at unprecedented energies. After the

discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, which was the latest missing piece of the Standard Model

(SM), the priority of the LHC program has now shifted towards the search for new physics. Some of

the most popular theories beyond the ...

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 ...

The IceCube neutrino and cosmic ray detector at the South Pole Big Science Ghent University

Dirk Ryckbosch
Department of Physics and astronomy

In this project we intend to work towards the first observation of astrophysical tau-neutrinos.

We will use data taken by the IceCube neutrino observatory located deep in the ice at the

South Pole. IceCube has an instrumented volume of a cubic kilometre and is by far the largest

neutrino detector in the world. It is sensitive to neutrinos with energies between 1010 and

1018 eV.

Of the ...

Neutrino interactions on Argon Ghent University

Natalie Jachowicz
Department of Physics and astronomy

Since the experimental confirmation of neutrino oscillations, these elusive particles attract more attention than ever. A number of experiments has been set up to find out more about the fascinating properties of neutrinos. A common need of these experiments is a detailed understanding of the interactions of neutrinos with nuclei, as this is an important way to detect them. As neutrinos interact only weakly with matter, obtaining precise ...

Studies of Cosmic Transient Phenomena related to Observed Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Ray Bursts with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Nicolaas Van Eijndhoven
Physics
Recently the discovery of cosmic high-energy neutrinos by IceCube and gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO opened new windows on the Universe. The sources of the cosmic neutrinos still remain a mystery, but it is expected that they originate from cataclysmic phenomena which also may induce gravitational waves. As such a combined investigation might provide insight in the progenitors and underlying physics related to both discoveries.
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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 ...