School of Physics (University College Dublin)
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The School of Physics at University College Dublin is a major centre for physics research in Ireland. The school currently consists of 20 full-time faculty members, 20 research and technical staff and 40 postgraduate research students. The research groups within the school are:
- Bio-nano physics
- Condensed matter theory
- Environmental radiation
- Atomic, molecular and plasma physics
- Astrophysics, space science and relativity theory (members of the VERITASVERITASVERITAS is a major ground-based gamma-ray observatory with an array of four 12m optical reflectors for gamma-ray astronomy in the GeV - TeV energy range. The telescope design is based on the design of the existing 10m gamma-ray telescope of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory...
and INTEGRALINTEGRALThe European Space Agency's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory is an operational Earth satellite, launched in 2002 for detecting some of the most energetic radiation that comes from space. It is the most sensitive gamma ray observatory ever launched.INTEGRAL is an ESA mission in...
experiments) - Experimental particle physics (The group participate in the Large Hadron ColliderLarge Hadron ColliderThe Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature....
experiments LHCbLHCbLHCb is one of six particle physics detector experiments collecting data at the Large Hadron Collider accelerator at CERN. LHCb is a specialized b-physics experiment, that is measuring the parameters of CP violation in the interactions of b-hadrons...
and CMSCompact Muon SolenoidThe Compact Muon Solenoid experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland and France. Approximately 3,600 people from 183 scientific institutes, representing 38 countries form the CMS collaboration...
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