Particules

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) [a,b] is a next-generation neutrino oscillation experiment to measure unknown parameters of the Standard Model of particle physics and to search for new phenomena.  A high power wide-band beam operating in neutrino or anti-neutrino mode will be produced at Fermilab, the flux and flavour composition will be characterised with the Near Detector.

Neutrino physics is one of the most exciting topics in contemporary physics, leading to two Nobel prizes in the last 20 years for the detection of cosmic neutrinos and the discovery that neutrinos have mass. The massive nature of neutrinos is arguably the strongest indication of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, opening a number of fundamental questions: What is the mechanism for neutrino mass generation? Are neutrinos responsible of the matter-antimatter imbalance in the universe? Can neutrinos tell us something about the unification of fundamental forces?
The student will perform, with simulated event samples, a study of the sensitivity of the measurement of  Higgs boson decays to hadrons at the Futur Circular Collider, for the measurement of the Higgs Yukawa couplings to quarks of the second and third families.
In addition, the student will also have the possibility - if time allows - to work on the detailed simulation of the electromagnetic calorimetry section of one of the proposed detector designs for FCC.
The ATLAS experiment is installed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. Two data taking periods have already taking place:
a) Run 1 (2011–2012), at 7 and 8 TeV in the center of mass (c.o.m). In this Run ATLAS and CMS discovered a standard model-like Higgs boson at 125 GeV (H), mainly through its bosonic decay modes.

Il y a dix ans, le 4 juillet 2012, les collaborations ATLAS et CMS annonçaient la découverte d'une nouvelle particule cohérente avec le boson de Higgs du modèle standard (SM) de la physique des particules utilisant les collisions proton-proton délivrées par le Large Hadron Collider (LHC ) au CERN.
Cette découverte a marqué un progrès fondamentale de la physique des particules en raison du rôle clé joué par le boson de Higgs dans l’interpretation théorique des phénomènes microscopiques fournie par le SM [1].
 

Dark Matter is one of the main puzzles in fundamental physics and Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) are among the best-motivated dark matter particle candidates. As of today, the most sensitive experimental technique to discover the WIMPs in the mass range from 2 GeV to 10 TeV is the dual phase Time Projection Chamber (TPC) filled with noble liquids. DarkSide-20k is the next generation of Liquid Argon (LAr) TPC, which will be running at LNGS (Italy) from 2024 with 50-ton active mass.