News about Particle physics

Scientist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75

Denmark’s most famous and beloved physicist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75 on the 25th of August. Holger Bech Nielsen is professor of theoretical high-energy physics, which is the study of the basic structure and…

Stavros Kitsios

Evaluation of the Muon Combinatorial Background at SHoP Experiment Supervisor: Stefania Xella

The long hunted sterile neutrino cannot be traced

Some of the most abundant particles in the universe are the so-called ghost particles, neutrinos, which travel through virtually anything on their journey through the universe. Researchers have identified three types…

Eva Brottmann Hansen

Early Atmospheric Muon Rejection with IceCube-PINGU Supervisor: Jason Koskinen

Adam Mielke

Exact Zero Modes in Coupled Chirac Systems Supervisor: Kim Splittorff

Danish professor new vice-president of the CERN Council

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, a professor of particle physics and head of the Subatomic research group at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has been elected as vice president of the CERN Council.

The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN

Researchers have recreated the universe’s primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead atoms with extremely high energy in the 27 km long particle accelerator, the LHC at CERN.

Troels Petersen from the Niels Bohr Institute receives Science Dissemination Award

‘A star in the area of communication’ – this is how Troels Petersen is described by colleagues, media and anyone who has experienced him talk about what he is passionate about – physics. Troels Petersen is an associate…

CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy

The world’s most powerful accelerator, the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at CERN in Geneva established collisions between lead nuclei, this morning, at the highest energies ever.

Pavel Naselsky appointed Professor

Pavel Naselsky has been appointed professor in the research group Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology at the Niels Bohr Institute. He researches the very earliest universe using observations from the Planck…

Almut Pingel

Tau lepton identification and studies of associated Higgs boson production with the ATLAS detector

Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen

Search fore new physics in multilepton final-states using multivariate techniques

Lars Egholm Pedersen

Probing the nature of the Higgs Boson

Christian Baadsgaard Jepsen

Amplitudes from sting theory and CHY formalism Supervisors: Emil Bjerrum-Bohr & Poul Henrik Damgaard

Andreas Søgaard

Boosted Bosons and Wavelets Supervisors: Dr. T. Petersen and Dr. C. Doglioni (Lund University)

Jeppe Trøst Nielsen

Supernovae and cosmological probes Supervisors: Subir Sarkar and Alberto Guffanti

Gorm Aske Krohn Galster

ATLAS Trigger: Preparation for Run II

CERN restarts particle collisions at record high energy

The 27 km long underground particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is once again in full swing and is colliding protons at record energies. This is after a break of more than two years to rebuild…

Detector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos

The Earth is constantly bombarded by billions of neutrinos, which zip right through the entire globe. The giant IceCube experiment at the South Pole can detect when there is a collision between neutrinos and atoms in th…

Valentina Zaccolo

Charged-Particle Multiplicity Distributions over Wide Pseudorapidity Range in Proton-Proton and Proton-Lead Collisions with ALICE

CERN starting the LHC accelerator up again to solve new mysteries

The 27 km long subterranean particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is ready to start up again. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world. After a break of two…

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General. She will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years.

Over 12 million kroner to two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Astrophysicist Lise Bech Christensen from the DARK Cosmology Centre and particle physicist Stefania Xella from the Discovery Center have both received grants of approximately 6-6½ million kroner from YDUN under the…

CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science

Founded in 1954, CERN is today the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and a prime example of international collaboration, bringing together scientists of almost 100 nationalities.