Group “Fundamental Interactions”
The particle physics team studies the elementary constituents of matter and their fundamental interactions. Its members seek to understand to what extent the Standard Model of particle physics describes what is observed, and explore new theories to explain what might exist beyond it. The main objective is to help discover new particles and fundamental interactions. This work focuses on processes observed in experiments such as those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, as well as the search for dark matter in the Universe in underground experiments. Also of concern are properties of elementary particles, such as the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, which are measured with very high precision. In complementary work, the team is interested in understanding how the strong interaction assembles quarks and gluons into hadrons, such as the proton and neutron, and how it determines the properties of these composite particles, their decays, and their interactions. Besides explaining and predicting fundamental properties of matter, this work is also necessary for most of the searches for new fundamental physics described previously. In its work, the team develops and uses different theoretical approaches to describe particle interactions, for example of quarks and gluons in the strongly non-linear regime of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), of hadrons at low energy, or of non-relativistic dark matter particles. These approaches include a variety of effective field theories and massively parallel numerical simulations on supercomputers in lattice QCD.
The team includes four permanent members, one emeritus, and a comparable number of PhD students and post-docs. It also regularly hosts scientists from all over the world.
| BHARUCHA | Aoife | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.28 | Contact |
| BILOSHYTSKYI | Volodymyr | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| BOURRELY | Claude | Visitor | Contact | |
| CHARLES | Jerome | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.02 | Contact |
| DUTRIEUX | Herve | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| GERARDIN | Antoine | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.06 | Contact |
| KNECHT | Marc | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.39 | Contact |
| LELLOUCH | Laurent | Researcher Team leader « Particle Physics » | +33.4.91.26.95.17 | Contact |
| LUPO | Alessandro | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| SJO | Mattias | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| VAIVA | Simon | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| VELASQUEZ ALVAREZ | Eduardo | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| WANG | Gen | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| ZAFEIROPOULOS | Savvas | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.27 | Contact |
New advances in the statistical parton distributions approach
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2016, 6th International Conference on Physics Opportunities at an Electron-Ion Collider, 112, pp.03007. (10.1051/epjconf/201611203007)
Relic density of wino-like dark matter in the MSSM
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016, 2016 (03), pp.119. (10.1007/JHEP03(2016)119)
Quantum electrodynamics in finite volume and nonrelativistic effective field theories
Physics Letters B, 2016, 755, pp.245-248. (10.1016/j.physletb.2016.01.047)
Raymond and instantons: Some recollections and the use of ADHM
Nuclear Physics B, 2016, 912, pp.273-288. (10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.07.021)
Lattice QCD at the physical point : pion-pion scattering and structure of the nucleon
High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th]. Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2015. English. (NNT : 2015PA112243)
Rare dileptonic B0(s) meson decays at LHCb
High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]. Aix-Marseille Université, 2015. English. (NNT : )
Physics at the e+ e- Linear Collider
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2015, 75 (8), pp.371. (10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3511-9)
Uncovering Natural Supersymmetry via the interplay between the LHC and Direct Dark Matter Detection
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015, 1507 (066), (10.1007/JHEP07(2015)066)
A lattice study of the nucleon quark content at the physical point
The 33rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Jul 2015, Kobe, Japan. pp.128, (10.22323/1.251.0128)
S-parameter and vector decay constant in QCD with eight fundamental fermions
The 33rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Jul 2015, Kobe, Japan
