News about Particle physics

Two NBI researchers receive Sapere Aude grants

Two NBI researchers, Charlotte Fløe Kristiansen, a professor in theoretical high energy physics and Albert Schliesser, an assistant professor in quantum mechanics have both received grants from the Danish Agency for…

The ALICE group at NBI receives 6½ million kroner to research primordial soup

The ALICE group at NBI has received a grant of 6½ million kroner from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences to research the universe’s primordial soup using collisions of atomic nuclei at the LH…

Morten Dam Jørgensen

Exotic Long Lived Particles

Sune Jakobsen

Commissioning of the Absolute Luminosity For ATLAS detector at the LHC

6.7 million DKK for Danish CERN research

Research at CERN receives 6.685 million Danish kroner from NUFI, the National Committee for Research Infrastructure under the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The funds are granted for the operation…

Allan Finnich

An investigation in introducing Matlab and data analysis in introductory physics Supervisor: Ian G. Bearden

Fabiola Gianotti awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour

The LHC accelerator is running on ‘woman power’, such is a saying CERN. One of the great top female researchers is the particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who for four years has been the head of......

Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole

The Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration. IceCube is an enormous particle detector built into a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole.

Mikkel Skaarup

Study of diffractive pp interactions at the LHC using a tagged proton Supervisor: Peter Henrik Hansen

Maria Hoffmann

Micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer Supervisors: Joerg Wotschack (CERN), Peter Hansen (NBI)

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass

Discovery Center receives 40 million kroner

The Discovery Center for Particle Physics at NBI has received a grant of 40 million kroner from the Danish National Research Foundation. This grant means that the Discovery Center, which was established in January 2010

Simon Stark Mortensen

Kinematic reconstruction of diffractive processes with tagged protons in the ALFA detector at √S=8TeV Supervisor: Peter Henrik Hansen

Bastian Poulsen

CMB methods applied to flow data from ALICE Supervisor: Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje

Christine O. Rasmussen

Next-to-leading order matrix element reweighting – a study on qq→zz→e+e-µ+µ- Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Kristian Gregersen

Anomalous trilinear gauge couplings in ZZ production at the ATLAS experiment

Karina Schifter Holm

Measurement of Z bosons in p+Pb collisions at p sNN = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector Corrections Supervisor: Peter Hansen

Christian Caeser

Measurement of Hard Double-Parton Interactions in Z → ll + 2 jet Events with the ATLAS Detector at √s = 7 TeV Supervisor: Peter Hansen

Simon Heisterkamp

R-Hadron Search at ATLAS

Martin Spangenberg

Calorimeter calibration and search for R-hadrons at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Lars Egholm Pedersen

Optimization of the Higgs sensitivity in the ZZ∗ → 4l channel using the 2011 datasample, collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Mizio Spatafora Andersen

Computation of Amplitudes using Tew Techniques Supervisors: Niels Emil Bjerrum Bohr, Poul Henrik Damgaard

Peter Kadlecík

A measurement of W+jet and Z+jet cross sections in the tau decay channel, and their ratio in the ATLAS experiment

Alexander Karlberg

Space-Cone Gauge and Scattering Amplitudes Academic advisor: Prof. Poul Henrik Damgaard