Results
The design, construction and exploitation of the R&D Field Lab `Einstein Telescope Pathfinder’
The next (3rd ) generation of gravitational wave detectors will make gravitational wave astronomy a fact. Indeed, with the current generation about one event a week is observed while with the 3rd generation this will be hundreds of events a day!
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Turning precise measurements at particle colliders into searches for new physics
Top quark, Higgs and heavy flavor physics with the CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN
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FCC physics studies
The HEP@VUB centre has been involved with the physics studies on the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This project uses a staged approach, in which a new, 100-km tunnel is first used for electron-positron collisions (FCC-ee), after which the complex is upgraded to collide hadrons (FCC-hh).
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Multi-messenger Studies of Cosmic Phenomena with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Since the discovery of cosmic rays in 1912, we still don't know what the sources of these energetic charged particles are.
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Exploring the High-Energy Neutrino Universe
With the discovery of cosmic high-energy neutrinos IceCube has opened a new research field, dubbed neutrino astronomy, which was announced as the “breakthrough of 2013”.
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Exploring the stochastic astrophysical and cosmological gravitational wave background: from modeling to observation
This proposal focuses on the stochastic background of gravitational waves (SBGW), both of astrophysical and of cosmological origin. One aspect of this proposal is the modeling of the SBGW originating in the early universe.
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Duality, Geometry and Spacetime
In string theory one assumes that elementary particles are not point like but rather little strings (higher dimensional objects, called branes, appear as well). A string like object perceives geometry (e.g. the ambient spacetime) in a very different way than what a point particle does.
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RADAR and radio detection of the PeV-EeV cosmic neutrino flux
With the detection of the high-energy cosmic neutrino flux in the TeV-PeV energy range, IceCube has opened a new window to our universe, neutrino astronomy.
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Analytic theory of tensor C*-categories
Tensor C*-categories are categories with a monoidal structure and a compatible operator algebra structure on their endomorphism spaces. One instance of a tensor C*-category is obtained by considering the category of finite dimensional representations of a compact group.
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The combinatorics of the Yang-Baxter equation
The research team investigates mathematical structures that are important in the study of the Yang-Baxter equation (YBE). Although the YBE has its origin in physics, it is now a fundamental mathematical object.
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