If you are a physics student at EPFL nearing the end of your bachelor’s degree, the following information is intended for you:
General information on the opportunities offered by the Laboratory of High Energy Physics (LPHE) to physics students in the master’s cycle (April 28, 2026):
- PDF file (2 A4 pages) (French version)
- Description of several possible experiments for the TP4a project during the winter semester (Master semester 1)
- Slides from the LPHE presentations (including TP4 and master project opportunities) given to third-year physics students on April 28, 2026:
- Presentation by Prof. R. Marchevski
- Presentation by Prof. L. Dufour
- The third presentation given the same day by LPAP is available here
The Physics Section will ask all physics students entering the Master’s program in the autumn semester of 2026 to choose the laboratories in which they would like to carry out their Physics I and/or II projects. To do so, they will be invited to complete an online form available between July 28 and August 17, 2026.
In the meantime, if you are interested in carrying out a physics project, a specialization semester, or a master’s project at the Laboratory of High Energy Physics (LPHE), or if you have questions about the opportunities offered by LPHE for physics students, you may contact one of the following people by email (in French or English):
- Prof. F. Blanc: [email protected]
- Prof. L. Dufour: [email protected]
- Prof. R. Marchevski: [email protected]
- Prof. C. Perrina: [email protected]
- Prof. O. Schneider: [email protected]
- Prof. L. Shchutska: [email protected]
Finally, if you have some time and feel like browsing a bit, here are a few suggestions:
- Homepage of the Laboratory of High Energy Physics (LPHE) at EPFL
- Websites of the experiments in which LPHE participates:
- The official and public websites of the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which recorded proton-proton collisions at 7–8 TeV in 2010–2012 (Run 1), at 13 TeV in 2015–2018 (Run 2), and then at 13.6 TeV in 2022–2026 (Run 3); this is the main research project of LPHE.
- An explanatory brochure about the LHCb experiment (French, English)
- The website of the NA62 experiment
- The website of the SND@LHC experiment, which collected its first data in 2022
- The website of the DAMPE satellite mission, which has been collecting data since 2015
- The website of the future space instrument HERD
- The website of the future SHiP experiment
- The website of the FCC study at CERN
Other websites related to CERN and its experiments:
- The public website of CERN, with a nice general introduction
- The public websites of the ATLAS experiment and CMS experiment, which discovered the Higgs boson in 2012 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Websites related to particle physics and nuclear physics in general:
- The interactive maps and posters (in English) from the “Contemporary Physics Education Project.” In particular, note the famous chart of fundamental particles and interactions.
- The ABC’s of Nuclear Science, a website about nuclear physics (in English) provided by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Be sure to check out the interesting educational poster.
- Experimental data online:
- Particles: http://pdglive.lbl.gov
- Nuclear: https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat3