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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · 5d

IIHE PhD student Stef Duponcheel received the prestigious Robert Brout prize from the Solvay Institutes award at the VUB graduation ceremony on 6 October 2025, honouring a master student in physics with an excellent academic record and an inspiring dissertation. Congratulations, Stef!

IIHE PhD student Stef Duponcheel receiving the prestigious Robert Brout prize from the Solvay Institutes award at the VUB graduation ceremony on 6 October 2025.

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Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 18d

I just had a tour around the DESY labs where parts of the next trackers (ATLAS and CMS) are being constructed. Amazing setups and professionalism 🤩
Every picture has an enormous amount detail behind it. Super nice to see it in real life (thanks to Elisabetta and Doris 🙏).

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ULBRecherche @ulbrecherche.bsky.social · 16d

📡JUNO: le géant sous terrain à l'écoute des particules 🔭

Retour en images sur la construction du plus grand détecteur mondial de neutrinos, ces particules encore mal connues en physique.

A retrouver sur #BetterCallScience, l'Instagram de la recherche à l'ULB et ici 👇
ulb.pulse.ly/4g0r4Pulse

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IceCube Neutrino Observatory @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social · 26d

📍It’s getting brighter at the Pole! Easier to see all the accumulated snow that will need to be removed for the IceCube Upgrade deployment.

Read more about week 35 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸:Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

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Freya Blekman @freyablekman.bsky.social · 27d

Completing a PhD is always a journey with ups and downs. But I am extra proud of

Dr Eduardo Ploerer ⭐️
Dr Kunal Gautam⭐️

They started PhD during a pandemic, changed official supervisor twice, and moved country 3 times. And did excellent work on detectors, algorithms & physics of FCC-ee #PhDone

Fresh doctors Dr Eduardo Ploerer and Dr Kunal Gautam with their two (of many) supervisors

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CMS Experiment at CERN @cmsexperiment.bsky.social · 27d

Neon lights up the LHC!
CMS scientists study the first-ever neon-neon collisions, and comparing to oxygen-oxygen, xenon-xenon, and lead-lead, find interesting insights into quark-gluon plasma – the hottest state of matter🌡️

📍Read more: cms.cern/news/lhcs-fi...

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 27d

CERN’s #PhotoOfTheWeek features a collection of pictures taken by Cedric Favero during the CERN Photowalk 2025 competition held earlier this summer.

Here we see:
1 - 2: The #HiLumiLHC underground galleries

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · 26d

👉 More insight on #JUNO collaboration by @wired.com

WIRED @wired.com · 26d

Located in China, Juno is a 17-country collaboration that will try to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos to learn more about their mass. www.wired.com/story/this-g...

This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

Located in China, Juno is a 17-country collaboration that will try to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos to learn more about their mass.

www.wired.com

IIHE @iihe.ac.be · 29d

Find more information here : cms.cern/news/hunting... 4/4

Hunting exotic Higgs bosons decaying to lightweight scalar particles | CMS Experiment

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · 29d

It establishes that if they exist and decay withing the CMS tracking detector, they would be produced in less than 0.01% of all Higgs boson decays. 3/4

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · 29d

In a first search of its kind at the LHC, the CMS experiment
looks for light beyond-the-standard-model particles with a mass in the GeV range that decay into charged hadrons and muons. 2/4

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · 29d

🧵Soumya Dansana, joint ULB-VUB PhD at the IIHE, explains is latest thesis results in a CMS physics briefing article : "Hunting exotic H bosons decaying to lighweight scalar particles" 1/4

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ULBRecherche @ulbrecherche.bsky.social · Sep 9

🔬 Après dix ans de construction, JUNO, le plus grand détecteur de neutrinos, est opérationnel: Une étape historique en physique des particules! ⚛️

Bravo à l'équipe IIHE-ULB, dirigée par Barbara Clerbaux, pour ces années de travail! 👏
L’analyse des premières données est déjà en cours... 👀🌌🪐

L’expérience JUNO démarre la prise de données : l’ULB au cœur d’une aventure scientifique mondiale - Actualités de l'ULB

C’est gratifiant de voir nos expertises combinées converger dans un détecteur aussi remarquable, qui servira la communauté mondiale de la physique pendant des décennies.».

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CMS Experiment at CERN @cmsexperiment.bsky.social · Sep 4

🤩 In a first-of-its-kind search at the LHC, CMS probed Higgs boson decays to new light particles that give charged hadrons and muons. The results: such decays, if they occur at all, are limited to less than 0.01% of all Higgs boson decays. Read more: cms.cern/news/hunting...

#physics #research

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · Sep 3

She will play a key role to facilitate and organize the activities for the young researchers, aimed at a smooth integration of new students in the Collaboration, at enhancing their career opportunities, and at increasing their visibility within the Collaboration and worldwide. 3/3

IIHE @iihe.ac.be · Sep 3

During one-year term, starting on the 1st of September 2025, Katarina will represent these young scientists in the Collaboration Board. 2/3

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · Sep 3

🧵Katarina Simkova elected as the Early-Career Representative of the Pierre Auger Collaboration :

The Pierre Auger Collaboration consists of 400 scientists from institutions in 17 countries. Out of those, around 90 are PhD candidates and postdocs without a permanent position. 1/3

Katarina at one of the sites of the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory with a view over Pampa Amarilla.

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · Sep 2

More information here : iihe.ac.be/news/juno-st...

JUNO starts taking data ! | iihe.ac.be

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · Sep 2

The ULB JUNO group is delighted to share an important milestone for JUNO, the world’s largest underground neutrino detector. After ten years of design and construction, the JUNO experiment started data taking on 26/08/25, with the central detector fully filled with 20K tonnes of liquid scintillator.

Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Obesrvatory (JUNO) : pictures of the electronic room & the detector featuring IIHE people.

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IIHE @iihe.ac.be · Jun 16

Gilles De Lentdecker has been elected as the project manager of the CMS muon system, which is one of the key parts of the CMS experiment. Congratulations Gilles !

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Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · Jun 4

Check out this video if you want to learn more about the milliQan experiment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjg...

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CMS Experiment at CERN @cmsexperiment.bsky.social · May 16

🥳 CMS inaugurates its new Control Room!
It is about twice the size of the legacy control room in order to keep up with the growing needs of the collaboration, especially while moving toward the LHC High-Luminosity era.
👉 Read more about the control room and ceremony here: cms.cern/news/cms-ina...

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ULBRecherche @ulbrecherche.bsky.social · May 19

🔬 L’ULB participe à la construction de la nouvelle version du CMS, l'un des deux grands détecteurs de particules du @cern.bsky.social: 1.600 modules de haute précision à produire en 2 ans 💥

Un défi relevé avec 40 scientifiques belges, dans le cadre d’un projet soutenu par le FNRS et le FWO.

Des scientifiques de l’ULB contribuent au nouveau détecteur du CERN - Actualités de l'ULB

ulb.pulse.ly

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IceCube Neutrino Observatory @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social · May 20

📍Last week, the Pole was met with some bright green auroras. The winterovers have also been regularly visiting and documenting conditions at the IceCube Upgrade drill camp.

Read more about week 18 ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at...

📸Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · May 21

Welcome to the May–June edition of #CERNCourier 💫

In this issue, we explore two pivotal developments in accelerator physics: energy-efficient powering and #AI automation.

Read more: cerncourier.com/p/magazine

Magazine – CERN Courier

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