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The Rector of Ghent University visited CERN in Geneva as part of an official working visit, together with Flemish Minister-President Matthias Diependaele and fellow rectors from the University of Antwerp and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The visit took place within…
Our PhD student Jules gave a very important and interesting talk about his research at the CMS week in South Korea!
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This month marked the appearance of a remarkable result that made it to the public and shown at the Large Hadron Collider conference in Taipei, leading to a significant improvement on the previously published constraints on the charm-Higgs interactions. The…
In the first weeks of September, the EPPG group had the pleasure of hosting the BND Graduate School 2024 in Blankenberge. This annual event brings together early-career PhD students in particle and astroparticle physics for an intensive week of lectures,…
As part of the upgrade program of the CMS detector for its future operation at the High-Luminosity LHC, various research activities are in full swing for the mass production of the Muon Endcap (ME0) Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) modules. The…
In recognition of his outstanding achievements in studying the production of heavy quarks at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Jan van der Linden will be awarded the 2022/2023 edition of the KIT Doctoral Award, awarded by the Excecutive Board of…
Miki Ohtsuka, an ambitious physics teacher from Waseda University Honjo Senior High School, visited our laboratory and had an academic exchange. Miki is currently on an academic tour around Europe, targeting universities and institutes with Muography projects. Miki gave a…
In the heat of summer 2023, our group emerged as a hot spot for the production of the CMS GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) detector. We proudly unveiled the magnificent GE2/1, the second station of this cutting-edge detector at the Muon…
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…