The Origins of Matter: Higgs Boson, neutrinos and gravitational waves

Le grand collisionneur de hadrons, au Cern. — CERN

Among labEX LIO’s main topics of study are the origins of matter (Higgs boson) and of matter/antimatter asymmetry (neutrino oscillations), and the detection of gravitational waves. The Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lyon (IPNL) is LIO’s partner laboratory on the subject.

The IPNL researchers associated with labEX LIO study the basic building blocks of matter, as well as their interactions, from three angles. Particle physics is concerned with studying the famous Higgs boson, quarks and leptons, as well as neutrinos and their oscillations, which provide a path toward a new physics. Theoretical physics draws on fundamental concepts of matter and its interactions to solve the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, as well as the structure of the atomic nucleus and ion collisions. IPNL’s specialists in nuclear and hadronic physics focus on the properties and structure of nuclei under extreme conditions—research that makes hadron therapy for tumors possible.


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- Camilo Carrillo Montoya, 3 years postdoc at l'IPNL
- Gaëtan Castelneau, 2 years electronics expert at IPNL
- Iulia Companis, 3 years postdoc at IPNL
- Martin Gonzalez Alonso, 3 years postdoc at IPNL
- Bo Li, 3 years postdoc at IPNL
- Romain Maisonobe, 2 years postdoc at IPNL
- Yvan Vallois, PhD student at IPNL