Scientist presentation

Castermans, Thierry
PhD student

Born in 1977 in Brussels. Master’s degree in Physics at UMH (2000) and in Astrophysics, Geophysics and Spatial Sciences at ULg (2002). Currently PhD student at UMH (track reconstruction improvement and ultra high energy analysis) and monitoring coordinator of the AMANDA detector. Worked during the 2004-2005 season at South Pole for the calibration of AMANDA. Also involved in physics outreach activities (“Printemps des Sciences”, design and presentation of physics experiments for secondary schools, articles in the review of the astronomy club at UMH).

Activities

• Research programme: United States Antarctic Program
• Research group : Physique des Particules Elémentaires – Université de Mons- Hainaut (UMH)
• Research project :
  - Amanda/IceCube neutrinos telescopes
• Related activities :
  - “AMANDA: neutrino astronomy at the South Pole”, T. Castermans, M. Ribordy, poster presented at the international scientific meeting organized by the Belgian Physical Society, UMH, Mons, May 25-26 2004.
  - participation at PolePosition contest: French

List of publications

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

• Links to pdf documents:
  Outreach: acoustics for secondary school
• Links to external websites
  - Our website
  - Astronomy club at UMH
  - Physics outreach at UMH
  - Acoustics for secondary school

Contact

Castermans Thierry
Research Assistant, Ph. D. Student
Université de Mons Hainaut
Service Physique générale et physique des particules élémentaires
Building IV (IV/217), Plaine de Nimy,
19, Avenue Maistriau - B-7000 Mons
Thierry.Castermans@umh.ac.be
Phone: +32 65 37 33 96 - Fax: +32 65 37 33 86