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Head of Division Dirk RudolphEmail: dirk [dot] rudolph [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] seTelephone: +46 46 222 76 33 Deputy Head of Division David SilvermyrEmail: david [dot] silvermyr [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] seTelephone: +46 46 222 76 74 Deputy Head of Division Johan BijnensEmail: johan [dot] bijnens [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] seTelephone: +46 46 222 04 47 Addresses Visiting address Direct entry to th
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The Theoretical Particle Physics group is mainly active in particle physics phenomenology. Work which relates theory to quantitative predictions for collider experiments. The group is subdivided into smaller, more informal, research groups centered around different research areas, which again are clustered into different categories, centered around the individual researchers' projects. They includ
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The theory group in Lund has been a pioneer in the field of event generators for high energy physics, with particular emphasis on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), since the inception of the field in the late 1970s. Today seven seniors, Christian Bierlich, Rikkert Frederix, Gösta Gustafson (emeritus), Leif Lönnblad, Malin Sjödahl, Torbjörn Sjöstrand (emeritus) and Korinna Zapp all work on various aspe
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The PYTHIA Monte Carlo event generator is one of the most widely used pieces of event generator software in the world. Originally a Lund University project, it is now maintained by an international collaboration with members from around the world. The PYTHIA program aims to deliver a full description of all aspects of collisions between particles such as electrons, protons, photons and heavy nucle
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Low-energy particle physics is an area of particle physics covering most things not done at the highest energies. It encompasses what goes under the names of flavour-, precision- and hadronic physics and has strong connections to some areas of nuclear physics. Within the Lund theory group, Johan Bijnens, together with students and post docs, works on projects within all these aspects. In the histo
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Physics beyond the Standard Model refers to the search for a phenomenologically consistent theoretical framework providing a first-principle explanation of the known properties and deficiencies of the Standard Model being a low-energy effective field theory limit of a more fundamental ultraviolet-complete theory. Currently the group consists of two seniors: Roman Pasechnik and Johan Rathsman. Desp
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Bachelor's and master's degree projects at the Division of Particle and Nuclear Physics The Division welcomes both bachelor and master students to do their degree project in one of our research groups. Below you can find short descriptions of possible topics for your degree project with links to the respective research groups for more information. You can also contact teachers directly and ask abo
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General instructions for the Java applicationsAll the applications are written using the Java language. This has the advantage that they can be run on any platform but means they need to have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. This can be freely downloaded from the Oracle site that has versions for different platforms. Accept the licence agreement and download the relevant JRE.Mac OSX: Do
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The division organises regular seminars, traditionally known as Science Coffee, usually alternating between experimental and theoretical research topics. Science coffee seminars can sometimes be replaced with informal seminars, usually on topics with a more narrow scope. The normal starting time is Tuesdays at 11:15. Organizers are Alice Ohlson (experiment) and Roman Pasechnik (theory). Seminar c
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Bachelor and Master projects Computing in particle physics experiments Modern Particle Physics is also appropriately called High Energy Physics, because it relies upon accelerators delivering high-energy particle collisions in order to generate data. Gone are the days when particle physicists were climbing mountains with photographic plates, hoping to register rare particles coming from collisions
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The Division of Particle and Nuclear Physics has researchers supervising students in a broad range of projects, all centered around the ongoing research activities. You can read more about the research activities of the various groups by clicking the menu above. You can also continue reading on these pages for information about joining one of the programmes relevant for the research at the divisio
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Bachelor and Master projects ATLAS experiment at CERN The ATLAS experiment is one of the two largest experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. ATLAS is designed to search for new particles in proton-proton collisions at this world's most powerful accelerator, which saw first particle collisions in late 2009. Together with another large experiment (CMS), ATLAS announced the discovery
https://www.particle-nuclear.lu.se/experimental-particle-physics/atlas/degree-projects-atlas - 2026-06-07
Bachelor and Master projects ALICE experiment at CERN The ALICE experiment is one of the four large experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It is dedicated to the study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a new state of matter in which quarks and gluons are deconfined. The Lund ALICE group is involved in both data analysis and hardware development for upgrades and even a possible futu
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You can read publications from Theoretical Particle Physics in the Lund University research portal, by clicking the link on the right. You can also explore the divisions' own archive of older publications, dating back to 1992 up to 2020, in the menu on the left. Find publications in the research portal
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Bachelor and Master projects The Lund group is deeply involved in the development of several Monte Carlo event generators, used for simulating collision events as they arise in high energy experiments. There are possibilities for several different kinds of bachelor and master projects, in the full spectrum between projects which are very theoretical, and projects which are very close to experiment
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Phenomenology beyond the Standard Model is a wide subject and our group is specialised in a few areas as listed below. Projects can be developed in all these areas, and adjacent ones. You are always welcome to contact us to discuss details, or if you have a project idea that you think could fit. Model building Model building refers to efforts to construct and explore theoretically and phenomenolog
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This page describes the general area and a number of methods used in flavour- and low-energy particle physics as relevant for bachelor and master projects. General comments Depending on the particular subject many different methods will be involved. As all modern research in theoretical physics they usually involve using computers with programming at various levels in either algebraic systems like
The research of the BAR group concerns various aspects of man-made radionuclides which may be found in the environment today and in the future. Our research group focuses on environmental radiology, specifically studying the release of radionuclides from various sources. These sources include nuclear power plants, research laboratories, and accelerator facilities. Our work includes collaboration o
HIBEAM & NNBAR HIBEAM-NNBAR is a proposed two-stage program of experiments at the European Spallation Source (ESS) designed to search for neutrons converting into antineutrons and/or sterile neutrons. Such an observation would indicate baryon number violation, a fundamental condition for baryogenesis, the physical process that is hypothesized to have taken place during the early universe to produc
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We study exotic atomic nuclei that are of interest in pure nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics and fundamental physics, mainly in international collaborations using large scale infrastructures. We also develop instrumentation and analysis methods as part of the research program. Nuclear Physics with Radioactive Ion BeamsOur experiments are mainly carried out at the ISOLDE radioactive beam facili
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