Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

Experiment NOvA at Fermilab, USA, studies neutrinos; their oscillations, mass hierarchy and CP symmetry violation.

Neutrinos are the most abundant massive particle in the universe, but are still poorly understood. They flit through ordinary matter as though it weren’t there.  The full text >>

Our Department participates, within the international CALICE Project, in the development of calorimetry for future particle physics experiments. Namely, the aim is to develop an instrumentation of calorimeters which would allow tracking particles inside the particle shower, their identification, precise localization etc. This calorimetry concept is denoted as Particle Flow Algortithms in the literature.

The Prague group developed, in cooperation with the ON Semiconductor company, silicon pad sensors for the SiW electromagnetic calorimeter. These sensors have been tested in our laboratory and mounted in the calorimeter prototype that have been irradiated in test beams at DESY, CERN and Fermilab. We have been intensely involved in evaluation of experimental measurements with prototypes and setting directions and priorities of future research program.

The aim of the RD50 project in the European Centre for Particle Physics CERN is the development of radiation hard detectors for LHC experiments and subsequently for SLHC. For our laboratory the participation in the project was a supporting activity for our participation in ATLAS.