Scientific Activities

in 2020

EXPERIMENTAL DIVISION

During 2020 the Experimental Division’s activities focused on 10 main projects, most of them long-term efforts. These projects span the fields of High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, and include the development of detectors for Medical Imaging applications as well as related instrumentation projects and research in Quantum Computing Technologies.

1. ATLAS, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN

2. ATLAS upgrades

3. T2K, a neutrino long base-line experiment in Japan.

4. MAGIC telescopes, on the el Roque de los Muchachos on the Canary Island of La Palma

5. CTA: Cherenkov telescope Array telescopes

6. The Dark Energy Survey (DES)

7. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument(DESI)

8. The PAU Survey

9. The Euclid Mission

10. Medical Imaging

11. Quantum Computing Technologies

THEORY DIVISION

1. Standard Model

2. Beyond the Standard Model