Projects
IceCube Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Obscured Sources in the Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
collaboration in 2013 started the quest to unravel their origin.
Multimessenger observations of both neutrinos and gamma rays
show that the contribution of gamma-ray bright objects to the
observed diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux is largely constrained.
This has lead the IceCube group at the IIHE-VUB to propose
gamma-ray dim objects, ...
Search for heavy sterile neutrinos at the Belgian BR2 reactor. University of Antwerp
The impact of non-linear wave propagation on the observation of cosmic neutrinos Vrije Universiteit Brussel
a collision kilometers deep in the South Pole ice layer can be detected because they emit a short ...
FLAMENCO: Flavor, Lepton number, And Mass Explorations of Neutrinos at the COmpact muon solenoid Ghent University
Neutrinos, the subatomic particles that play a fundamental role in everyday nuclear processes like the solar fusion cycle, are very much a mystery despite their discovery already 60 years ago. Within the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the widely successful description of particles at the smallest scales, neutrinos are massless. As a result, the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of extremely tiny neutrino masses represents one of the greatest ...
Search for Heavy Neutrinos using the CMS detector at the LHC Ghent University
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 ...
Searching for The Origin of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos with LOFAR Vrije Universiteit Brussel
It is generally believed that ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are produced in extragalactic sources like gamma- ray bursts or active galactic nuclei, while the lower energy cosmic rays come from our own Galaxy. At what energy this transition takes ...
Search for sterile neutrinos at the Belgian BR2 reactor. University of Antwerp
Study of high-energy galactic and extra-galactic neutrino's with the IceCube Cherenkov detector placed deep in the Antarctic Ice at the South Pole Ghent University
High-energy neutrino's are studied with the IceCube Cherenkov detector under construction at the South Pole.