Remember who visited EPPG in May, and gave a wonderful colloquium on “IceCube: The First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy”? Yes, it was Francis Halzen who today got awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino…
Today, Prof. Francis Halzen, co-spokesperson and Principal Investigator of IceCube visited us for a meet-and-greet with our PhD students and postdocs, and to give a departmental colloquium on “The first decade of neutrino astronomy”. Among many awards and distinctions, Francis…
Our PhD student Jules gave a very important and interesting talk about his research at the CMS week in South Korea!
After months of intense research, CMS and ATLAS finally have announced the observation of one of the rarest and most extreme Standard Model processes ever observed at the LHC: the simultaneous production of four top quarks. Quarks are one of…
Ever thought how luminosity is measured at CMS? This done using so-called luminometers which are detectors counting a certain process with known cross-section. These cross-sections are measured once a year during a special LHC setup that allows to measure cross-sections…
Mr Jo Brouns (centre of picture), Flemish Minister for Economy, Innovation, Work, Social Economy and Agriculture, accompanied by the rectors of the five Flemish Universities paid a visit to CERN on Tuesday 6 September 2022. In addition to various presentations…
The first big outing of the group happened at the beginning of Summer 2022. The first big social event after the pandemic! More pictures of the group outing are to be found here:
Prof. dr. Dirk Ryckbosch, member of our group, gave a talk at Universiteit van Vlaanderen, an organization which provides free online colleges to the general public, given by prominent Flemish scientists. You can discover the talk here! (dutch-only) ;amp Source: www.universiteitvanvlaanderen.be
On January 15 and 16, the Ghent Experimental Particle Physics Group has hold a group meeting and team building activity in Vecmont near La Roche-en-Ardenne. The main goal of the group meeting is to allow PhD students and research staff from our…
During the past 8 days, the Ghent Experimental Particle Physics Group hosted the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP), in collaboration with the Universiteit Antwerpen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Universite Catholique de Louvain.