Scientist presentation

Herquet, Philippe
Professor

Born in 1946, PhD at ULB in 1973, PostDoc at Stanford University. Work on experimental elementary particles physics using accelerators and colliders in CERN, USA and Russia. Also involved with neutrinos detectors at Amundsen-Scott South Pole station where he worked during 2003 austral summer. Teaching general physics to 1st year science students at UMH university. Also involved in secondary school physics teacher training and outreach activities in physics.

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:
  - 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

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Contact

Herquet Philippe
Chef du service
Université de Mons Hainaut
Servce Physique générale et physique des particules élémentaires
Building IV (2ème étage – bureau 014) Plaine de Nimy,
19, Avenue Maistriau - B-7000 Mons
philippe.herquet@umh.ac.be
Phone: +32 65 37 .33 87 - Fax: + 32/65/37 30 54