News about Particle physics

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.

Gorm Galster

The Central Trigger Processor of the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC and its Monitoring

Four young scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Four young scientists, Matthias Wilhelm, Christa Gall, Michele Burrello and You Zhou recieves Villum Young Investigator grants.

Helle Gormsen

Search for right-handed neutrinos with 79.8 fb-1 of data collected at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

Research Infrastructure will upgrade the University of Copenhagen’s particle detectors and data processing facilities at CERN, so that in the future we can increase our knowledge about the early state of the Universe.

Laís Ozelin de Lima Pimentel

Charged-particle multiplicity distributions in p-Pb collisions at √ sNN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE

Mikkel Jensen

Environmentally induced neutrino decoherence in IceCube Advisors: Dr. David Jason Koskinen and Dr. Thomas Simon Stuttard

Milky Way type dust particles discovered in a galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth

An international research team, with participation from the Niels Bohr Institute, has found the same type of interstellar dust that we know from the Milky Way in a distant galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth.

Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have recently provided the scientific community with a much-needed computer model.

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives grant of 4.4 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation for Microphysics of the…

Christian Bourjau

Factorization of two-particle distributions measured in Pb-Pb collisions at √s = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector

Fabian A.J. Thiele

An ATLAS Search for Sterile Neutrinos

Katarina Gajdosova

Investigations on collectivity in small and large collision systems at the LHC with ALIC

Michael James Larson

A Search for Tau Neutrino Appearance with IceCube-DeepCore

Milena Bajic

A search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a τ-lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV at the LHC

Rosanna Ignazzi

Measurement of the tt production cross section in the e channel with b-tagged events at s = 13 TeV and its interpretation towards a high precision top quark mass Measurement.

Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives a Villum Young Investigator grant on 7.350.000 DDK for…

Sissel Bay Nielsen

Prospects of Sterile Neutrino Search with the FCC-ee Supervisor: Mogens Dam

Jack Christopher Hutchinson Rolph

Measurement of the total p-p cross section using the ALFA detector at √s = 13 TeV Supervisor: Peter Henrik Hansen