Starting Grants
Cosmology at the CERN Large Hadron Collider |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland CERN Contact: Geraldine Servant (PH) EU funding: 0.8 M€ over 5 years Status: Completed |
Hot and dense QCD in the LHC era Website: http://igfae.usc.es/hotlhc/ |
Coordinator: USC, Spain CERN Contact: Urs Wiedemann (PH) EU funding: 1.4 M€ over 5 years Status: Completed |
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 |
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 |
Mass hierarchy and particle physics at the TeV scale |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland CERN Contact: Ignatios Antoniadis (PH) EU funding: 2.5 M€ over 5 years Status: Completed |
Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity and Gauge Fields Website: http://cern.ch/Superfields |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland CERN Contact: Sergio Ferrara (PH) EU funding: 1.7 M€ over 5 years Status: Completed |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |