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Academic visit of Muographer from Japan

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…

CMS GEM Detector Production in Ghent

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…

Van Der Meer Program 2022

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…

Graduation Master Students

Our Master’s students of last year succesfully graduated, which was celebrated with an official proclamation ceremony. Two of them got an award acknowledging excellency in their academic performance and Master’s thesis work. Sibe Bleuze, supervised by Prof. Archisman Gosh, was…

CERN visit of Minister Jo Brouns

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…

Group outing 2022

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: 

Group meeting 2020

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…