Research group presentation

Physique des Particules Elémentaires – Université de Mons- Hainaut (UMH)
Promoter: Prof. Dr. Herquet Philippe

Presentation

The group is working since the early 1970 in the field of elementary particles physics, in particular using high energy accelerators at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva). The last five years the activities cover also astroparticles physics and in particular neutrinos from galactic or extragalactic sources.

Activities

particles detector R&D, computing, data analysis

Main field of activity

Amanda/IceCube neutrinos telescopes

Research Group Team

• Promoter: Prof. Herquet Philippe
• Post doctorate students: Ribordy Mathieu
• PhD researchers: Castermans Thierry, Kohnen Georges
• Involved research groups : IIHE (ULB- VUB), Ghent University; w3.iihe.ac.be
• Involved partners : 25 teams in the USA, UK, Netherland, Germany, Sweden, Japan, New Zealand (amanda.uci.edu)

Publication list

Limits on diffuse fluxes of high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 detector
(T. Castermans, Ph. Herquet, M. Ribordy, …)
Astro-ph/0303218
Phys.Rev.Lett.90(2003) 251101

Search for point sources of high energy neutrinos with AMANDA
(T. Castermans, Ph. Herquet, …)
Astro-ph/0208006
Astrophys.J.583 (2003) 1040-1057

IceCube - The next generation neutrino telescope at the South Pole
(T. Castermans, Ph. Herquet, M. Ribordy, …)
Astro-ph/0209556 et Proceedings de «XXth International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics»
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.118 (2003) 388-395

Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II
(T. Castermans, Ph. Herquet, M. Ribordy, …)
Phys. Rev. Let. 92,7 (2004) 071102-1 à 5

Complementary resources about this research group:

• amanda.umh.ac.be/Home.html
• icecubemons.umh.ac.be/