News about Particle physics

Rasmus Faldt Ørsøe

Title: A Graph Neural Network Approach to Low Energy Event Reconstruction in IceCube Neutrino Observatory Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Sofus Kjærsgaard Stray

Title: In-situ relative efficiency calibration of digital optical modules in the IceCube detector Supervisor: David Jason Koskinen

Sara Elisabeth Dahl Pinholt

Title: Improving Z and Higgs selections in ATLAS using Machine Learning Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Jean-Loup Tastet

Searching for Heavy Neutral Leptons at CERN Supervisor: Oleg Ruchayskiy

New physics at stake? Deviation from the standard model of physics confirmed

An ultraprecise measurement of spinning muons, heavier cousins of electrons, in magnetic fields has strengthened a 20 year old signal of new physics, potentially yielding the first sign of new fundamental particles or…

Jon Raunkjær Søndergaard

Title: Study of Elastic Proton-Proton scattering at the LHC Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Jacob Bundgaard Nielsen

Title: Heavy Neutral Lepton Detection in the Tau Channel Supervisor: Stefania Xella

IceCube confirms a 60-year-old prediction from Niels Bohr Institute

Scientists from Niels Bohr Institute are part of an international collaboration observing resonant interactions of high-energy neutrinos in Antarctica. The observation confirms a prediction made by Nobel laureate Sheldo…

Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

The title is a little unusual for a scientific project: “Neutron stars - rattling, shining and sparkling”, but the idea is to take a closer look at where elements heavier than iron like platinum and gold actually come…

Emmanouil Terzidis

Title: Individual anisotropic planning target volumes (PTV) for lung cancer radiotherapy in deep-inspiration breath hold Supervisors: Jens J. Gaardhøje, Katrin E. Hakansson, Ivan R. Vogelius

Daniel S. Nielsen

In search of new Higgs bosons Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Kassiani Tsemperlidi

Title: Image Guided & Adaptive Radiotherapy in Esophageal Cancer Supervisors: Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Mirjana Josipovic

Bjørn Hübschmann Mølvig

Low-Energy Neutrino Reconstructions using Recurrent Neural Networks Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Emil Gorm Nielsen

Evidence of transverse momentum dependent flow angle and magnitude fluctuations at the LHC with ALICE Supervisor: You Zhou

Sissel Bay Nielsen

Title: Flavour Identification Techniques Supervisor: Mogens Dam

Deep Learning online Workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute: Great Learning

Following the latest developments of the COVID 19 pandemic, the planned Workshop on Perspectives and Applications of Deep Learning for Accelerated Scientific Discovery in Physics was turned into an online event.

Lau Dam Mortensen

Title: Using linear decorrelated machinelearning models for particle identification of high energy electrons with energy more than 80GeV in real data from the Large Hadron Collider in CERN Supervisors: Troels Christian…

Jan de Boer

Forward Physics and Scintillating Fibre Trackers at the Large Hadron Collider Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Three young scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Three young scientists, Mauricio Bustamante, Amin Doostmohammadi and Johan Samsing get to boost their research in particle physics, self-pumping fluids and gravitational waves in the Universe.

Vojtech PACÍK

Investigation of azimuthal anisotropy using multi-particle correlations of identified hadrons at the LHC with ALICE detector

Eugene S. Polzik Named Recipient of the 2020 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesell¬schaft (DPG) have named OSA Fellow Eugene S. Polzik, the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, the 2020 recipient of the Herbert Wather Award.…

The final piece in the puzzle of the origin of the elements

For the first time, an element heavier than iron has been clearly detected in the collision of two neutron stars, resolving one of the fundamental questions about the history of the universe.

Ida Torkjellsdatter Storehaug

Improving the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux Estimation in IceCube Supervisor: Dr. D. Jason Koskinen

Mia-Louise Nielsen

Transient Neutrino Astrophysics with IceCube-DeepCore Supervisors: Dr. D. Jason Koskinen and Dr. Morten A. Medici