FP7 IDEAS

Starting Grants

Cosmology at the CERN Large Hadron Collider 
The project has essentially two inter-twined aspects. One is on the electroweak theory, particle physics issues such as relation to the hierarchy problem, collider signatures and flavour problems. The second one is on the cosmology implications of new physics at the TeV scale.

Website:http://cern.ch/servant/COSMO@LHC_ERC.html

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Geraldine Servant (PH)

EU funding: 0.8 M€ over 5 years

Status: Completed
01/07/2008 - 30/06/2013

Hot and dense QCD in the LHC era 
QCD, the theory of strong interactions, has been defined as our most perfect physical theory, in part because its compact and apparently simple Lagrangian hides a plethora of emerging phenomena. Hot LHC aims to fully exploit the new possibilities of the Large Hadron Collider to characterise unexplored domains of QCD.

Website: http://igfae.usc.es/hotlhc/

Coordinator: USC, Spain

CERN Contact: Urs Wiedemann (PH)

EU funding: 1.4 M€ over 5 years

Status: Completed
01/01/2012 - 31/12/2016

Advanced Grants

Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC and with Atom Interferometers 
Elementary particle physics is entering a spectacular new area in which experiments at the LHC at CERN will soon start probing some of the deepest questions in physics. BSMOXFORD is aimed at setting up a world-leading European center for development of a deeper theory of fundamental physics.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Savas Dimopoulos (PH)

EU funding: 2.2 M€ over 5 years

Status: Completed
01/05/2009 - 30/04/2014
Theoretical predictions and analyses of LHC physics: advancing the precision frontier 
LHCtheory plans to push to new levels of precision the predictive power of theoretical analyses of the phenomena observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The crucial ingredient in the success of this ambitious programme is the ability to interpret the signals extracted by the experiments. Capitalizing on recent theoretical advances, this project outlines a challenging and ambitious programme to advance to new levels the precision, generality and scope of the analysis tools used by both experimentalists and theorists engaged in LHC physics.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Michelangelo Mangano (PH)

EU funding: 2 M€ over 5 years

Status: Completed
01/04/2012 - 31/03/2017

Mass hierarchy and particle physics at the TeV scale
The research goal is the investigation of the most fundamental aspects of particle physics models and gravity at high energies, and establishing the connection between these findings and experiments.

Website:http://cern.ch/grojean/ERC/MassTeVERC.html

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Ignatios Antoniadis (PH)

EU funding: 2.5 M€ over 5 years

Status: Completed
01/12/2008 - 30/11/2013

Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity and Gauge Fields
This project aims at investigating some crucial issues in globally supersymmetric and Supergravity theories. The project will be carried out through the abilities and the skills of the PI and of the team members, with their complementary expertise on different but interrelated topics in the holographic approach to modern theories of quantum gravity. Supersymmetry and gauge principles will serve as basic tools for their research.

Website: http://cern.ch/Superfields

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Sergio Ferrara (PH)

EU funding: 1.7 M€ over 5 years

Status: Completed
01/06/2009 - 31/05/2014
Exploring the Terauniverse with the LHC, Astrophysics and Cosmology 
Terauniverse will lead the understanding whatever new physics the LHC may reveal, incorporating insights from cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and speculative ideas such as string theory. This interdisciplinary approach will also facilitate the application of knowledge acquired from the LHC to fundamental cosmological and astrophysical problems, as well as illuminate future collider priorities, e.g., for LHC upgrades and/or a linear collider.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: John Ellis (PH)

EU funding: 1.9 M€ over 5 years

Status: Completed
01/04/2011 - 31/03/2016
4D total absorption imaging calorimeter
This 4-year project proposes a breakthrough in particle detectors by developing a highly granular calorimeter with high-resolution timing information, thus providing precise information of the space-time development of electromagnetic and hadronic showers.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Paul Lecoq (PH)

EU funding: 2.2 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/02/2014 - 31/01/2018
A large-area detector for precision time-of-flight measurements 
The TORCH (Time Of internally Reflected CHerenkov light) detector provides a time-of-flight measurement from the imaging of photons emitted in a 1 cm thick quartz radiator, based on the Cherenkov principle. This novel detector system has the potential to revolutionize particle identification in the difficult intermediate momentum region, up to 20 GeV/c.

Coordinator: UOXF, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Roger Forty (PH)

EU funding: 2.7 M€ over 5 years

Status: Completed
01/04/2012 - 31/03/2017

Consolidator Grants

High Impact Cross Section Calculations for Ultimate precision
This project deals with precision QCD calculations that are relevant for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, and for future colliders. The project is divided into two main parts. In the first part, a general procedure to merge calculations involving different jet multiplicities at next-to-leading order (NLO) level will be formulated. A second part of the project will push the frontier of next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) resummations to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic level (NNLL), thereby achieving a considerable reduction of uncertainty for important final state observables. Besides the groundbreaking impact on present LHC physics measurements, these results will also be essential to match the high accuracy of measurements at a future linear collider.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Giulia Zanderighi (PH)

EU funding: 1.5 M€ over 5 years

Status: Started
01/04/2014 - 31/03/2019