News about Particle physics

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

THOMAS S. HALBERG

Low Energy Neutrino Reconstruction in IceCube and the ICU Advisor: D. Jason Koskinen Co-advisor: Tom Stuttard

Lea Halser

Neutrino Fluence of Gamma-Ray Bursts for Arbitrary Viewing Angles Supervisor: Assi. Prof. Markus Ahlers

Irene Tamborra receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award

Associate Professor Irene Tamborra at the Niels Bohr Institute receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award. The prize was presented to her during the opening ceremony of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC)…

Probing the beginning of the Universe can soon be done more accurately

As many as 200 telescopes will be erected, in order to achieve the highest possible precision in measuring the radiation from the Universe.

NSF Awards Funding for the IceCube Upgrade

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is about to get a significant upgrade. The World's largest neutrino telescope, located at the South Pole, is run by an international team of more than 300 scientists, including a group a…

A New Upgrade for the IceCube Detector

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica is about to get a significant upgrade. The purpose of this huge installation is to detect neutrinos, the “ghost particles” of the Universe.

Taus Munck Hansen

Multi-Messenger Probes of the Sources of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Supervisor: Assi. Prof. Markus Ahlers Co-supervisor: Postdoc. Mohamad Rameez

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, receives scientific prize

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives the 2019 MERAC Prize from the European Astronomical Society for the Best Early Career Researcher.