LHCb collaboration meeting in Marseille
In the last week of September, members of the LHCb collaboration gathered in Marseille to discuss the status of the experiment and future prospects. The LPHE members presented their work on the operation of the scintillating fibre tracker (SciFi), tracking algorithms, luminosity measurement and other aspects of experiment operation. We also had chance to meet (…)
María Vieites Diaz awarded by Ramón y Cajal scholarship
María Vieites Diaz, a former post-doc at LPHE, got awarded by the prestigious Ramón y Cajal scholarship. It is considered to be the most prestigious nationally-funded research scholarshipto follow a scientific career in Spain. María will benefit from five years of funding, after which the host institution(to be chosen by the recipient) is expected or (…)
Welcome to the Fall semester students!
This Fall semester 2023 will be rich in projects! Nine new first year Master students will lead our three travaux pratiques (TP4a) projects, once a week on Mondays. Cosmic muons, supervised by Luismi: Noémie Duc, Julia Guignon, Lia Lammert Detection of cosmic rays using an electronic calorimeter, supervised by Anni: Eliot Bornand, Kimberly Keyser, Pascal (…)
Наші вітання Сергію!
This Friday 22nd September, Serhii Cholak (LPHE-LS) has successfully defended his thesis entitled Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with LHCb in front of his family, friends and colleagues. During his thesis, Serhii has computed the limit on the mixing parameter |Uµ|2 between the heavy neutral lepton (HNL) and the Standard Model muon neutrino as a (…)
Latsis Prize for Lesya Shchutska
Prof. Lesya Shchutska (LPHE-LS) was awarded the Swiss Science Prize Latsis 2023 by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) on behalf of the International Latsis Foundation, for her work on searches for new particles beyond the Standard Model. The prize is awarded yearly to a scientist aged under 40 working in Switzerland. Congratulations Lesya! Further (…)
Fétenders Veronica!
This Friday 25th August 2023, Veronica Kirsebom (LPHE-OS) successfully presented her thesis entitled Measurement of the B+→ρ0μ+νμ differential branching fraction in front of her family, friends and colleagues. During her PhD, Veronica measured the differential branching fraction as a function of the dilepton invariant mass squared relative to the decay B+→D0μ+νμ with D0→π+π–. This measurement (…)
Auguri Dottor Sara!
On this Friday 23rd June 2023, Sara presented her thesis, titled Testing lepton flavour violation in B -> K+ π+ π– l+ l– decays with LHCb in front on numerous public of family, friends and collegues. She will pursue her physics adventures with a post-doc in Universität Heidelberg. We wish her all the best!
Two LPHE technicians rewarded by LHCb prizes!
On the 7th of June 2023, Rodolphe Gonzalez, precision mechanic at the IPHYS mechanical workshop, and Norbert Adjadj, mechanic at the High Energy Physics Laboratory (LPHE), obtained high-level recognition from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN, consisting of more than 1100 scientists from 21 countries, and received the LHCb Technical Award 2023 for their “outstanding contribution (…)
Congratulations Prof. Fred Blanc!
At the May meeting of the ETH board, Fred Blanc has been awarded the title of Adjunct Professor in the School of Basic Sciences (SB). Congratulations Fred! More details here and here.
LPHE exhibition at the EPFL Open Days
Last weekend, April 29-30, 2023, EPFL opened its doors to general public for its EPFL Open Days 2023. This event ended up with frank success, since around 25,000 visitors came to learn more about the captivating universe of science and engineering. At this occasion, our lab presented an educative exhibition for the visitors of all (…)