Project

Experimental particle physics at the energy frontier

Code
01G02011
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 October 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Elementary particle and high energy physics
    • Quantum physics
Keywords
proton-proton collisions particle physics CMS experiment
 
Project description

In 2009 the experiments at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator facility at CERN (Geneva) became operational. In this accelerator protons are accelerated to energies up to 7 TeV. In collisions of protons with this energy new phenomena are expected: new particles such as the Higgs-boson or supersymmetry particles. In this project we carry out precision measurements on the top quark and a search for signals of supersymmetry.