High Energy Physics Division (BP3)

Accelerator-based experiments

1. CMS (LHC in CERN)

Equipment: the first level (L1) muon trigger
Topics: (i) properties of Higgs boson; (ii) search for new physics (heavy stable charged particles, displaced tau leptons); (iii) study of vector boson scattering; (iv) analyses of Pb-Pb collisions
Contact: Professor Michał Bluj michal.bluj[at]ncbj.gov.pl, Professor Piotr Zalewski piotr.zalewski[at]ncbj.gov.pl
WWW http://cms.fuw.edu.pl/

2. LHCb (LHC in CERN)

Equipment: straw chambers for Outer Tracker
Topics: (i) violation of CP symmetry in decays of b quarks (B_s-> J/Ψ Φ) and c quarks (decays of D/Lambda_c/... mesons); (iii) preservation of CPT symmetry
Contact: Professor Wojciech Wiślicki wojciech.wislicki@ncbj.gov.pl
WWW http://old.ncbj.gov.pl/pl/warszawska-grupa-lhcb

3. ALICE (LHC in CERN)

Equipment: calibration of the PHOS photon detector
Topics: (i) multiplicity and spectrum of charged particles produced in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions; (ii) preservation of CPT symmetry by means of measurement of differences between masses of nuclei and anti-nuclei
Contact: Professor Teodor Siemiarczuk teodor.siemiarczuk@ncbj.gov.pl

4. COMPASS (SPS in CERN)

Topics: (i) nucleon structure (including the spin structure); (ii) hadron spectroscopy using beams of muons/hadrons
Contact: Professor Andrzej Sandacz andrzej.sandacz@ncbj.gov.pl

5. Experiment NA61/SHINE at SPS in CERN

Topics:
- Studies of the properties of hadron production in collisions of relativistic ions with a variety of fixed nuclear targets for different beam energies.
- Studies of produced particle correlations and search for the critical point in the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter, intermittency analysis.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Joanna Stepaniak (joanna.stepaniak@ncbj.gov.pl)

6. WASA (COSY)

Topic: near-threshold production of pseudo-scalar mesons including search for the “dark photon”
Contact: Professor Joanna Stepaniak joanna.stepaniak@ncbj.gov.pl

7. ZEUS (HERA in DESY)

1. Neutrino oscillations in the T2K experiment

Equipment: Side Muon Range Detector – a part of the Near Detector, ND280
Topics: (i) oscillations of accelerator-produced neutrinos, including measurement of background for observations of electron neutrinos in T2K; (ii) measurement of cross sections for interactions of neutrinos with matter.

2. Measurements of hadron production in the p-C collisions in the NA61/SHINE experiment at SPS in CERN (for the T2K experiment)

3.ICARUS/DUNE: development of liquid argon-based neutrino detection techniques

4. Neutrino astrophysics at Super-Kamiokande, including search for dark matter