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Cosmological probes of Gravity and Dark Energy – eBOSS
The strategy of this project is to focus on four topics directly related to the study of dark energy and gravity. The first topic, BAO and Redshift-Space-Distorsion (RSD) with quasars, constitutes the core of the eBOSS science case. The second topic, Lya forest of quasars, represents
Data Model Reconstruction of the Cenozoic Climate – AMOR
The aim of this proposal is to investigate the carbon-climate-ice sheet couplings through the study of major global transitions between icehouse and greenhouse states that Earth already experienced. Although atmospheric CO2 level is generally proposed as the main driver of these climatic changes, pr
Uncovering QCD at high parton densities with hadron-hadron collisions at the LHC – DenseQCDatLHC
One of the main goals of the experiments carried out at the CERN Large Hadron Collider is the study of new forms of hadronic matter, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and the color glass condensate (CGC), characterized by high parton density and strong non-linear phenomena. These forms of matter are also
Search of Oscillations at very short distance with Lithium6 Detector at SCK-CEN BR2 – SoLid
The neutrino is one of the most enigmatic ingredient of the standard model of particle physics. Because of its weak interaction with matter and despite enormous experimental progress, its nature and its fundamental properties remain unknown: Dirac / Majorana, CP violation, absolute mass scale, other
Sulfur radical species and their applications for metal resources, magma evolution, and isotope geochemistry – RADICALS
Sulfur in aqueous fluids and silicate melts is a key element in many natural processes controlling the formation and exploitation of mineral resources, magma evolution and volatile degassing and isotope fractionation in mineral-fluid systems. For technological applications, sulfur is an important pl
Shedding light on physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC Run 2 using photons – PhotonPortal
The discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC Run 1 represents a milestone of particle physics. On the other hand, no clear sign of new phenomena beyond the Standard Model was found in the proton-proton collisions collected at 7 and 8 TeV at the LHC. The LHC Run 2 started in 2015: the increased center o
New Developments toward Seismic Metamaterials – META-FORET
Why should complex wave physics be limited to experiments at very small scales? As waves obey similar propagation equations whatever their origin, why are there so few observations of the effects of advanced wave physics at the geophysics scale, for example? Of course, the answers to these deliberat
Transdimensional Imaging of the Cratonic Lithosphere – TransCraton
This project focuses on investigating the seismic structure of cratons, the oldest continents on Earth, whose understanding is essential to decipher early processes in Earth history, such as the formation and evolution of early continents. Competing hypotheses based on geochemical and petrologic con
exo-PlanetarY high-Temperature Hydrocarbons by Emission and Absorption Spectroscopy – e-PYTHEAS
In order to analyze the large number of hot and complex spectra of brown dwarfs, exoplanets and AGBs available today and to infer unique information on the chemistry and dynamics of their atmospheres, new spectroscopic parameters are needed. Water vapor and methane are the main opacity sources det
Black Hole Microstate and de Sitter Landscapes in String Theory – Black-dS-String
String Theory is the most promising candidate for a theory that unifies all the forces that exist in nature, and could therefore provide a framework from which one may hope to derive all the observed physical laws. However, String Theory lives in ten dimensions, and to obtain real-world physics one
Modification of parton showers in the Quark-Gluon Plasma – HotShowers
The main objective is to explore how jet quenching depends on the flavor of the parton that initiates the jet. This dependence provides insight into the dynamics of parton energy loss. For example, the mass of the quark is thought to have an impact on the extent to which collisional processes domi
Astroparticles and pulsars: connections from low to ultrahigh energies – APACHE
Exciting times! Multi-messenger astronomy at the highest energies has just started with gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos joining the game. This momentum will serve to collect more data and make progress on the secular yet unresolved astrophysical problem: what is the origin of the ultra
Transformational models for Transformational Data – PLANET-FORMING-DISKS
Protoplanetary Disks around young stars are modern day alchemists, they transform dust into astronomical gold: the planets! But just how exactly they achieve this remains a mystery. Giant planets have to form in the protoplanetary disks early, when they are still rich in gas and dust. Evidence from
Mars Primitive Environment – MARS-PRIME
The relative role of weathering versus hydrothermal alteration in forming phyllosilicates remains unclear and no definitive answer has emerged from a decade of local and global studies. The search for oxidizing or reducing environments and the state of iron is a major aspect of investigations of Ear
Gas Life cYcle around galaxies : oRIgin and state of Cold accretion Streams – LYRICS
The goal of LYRICS is to characterize and understand the nature and the origin of the large molecular filaments observed around massive central cluster (and group) galaxies. To determine the gas life cycle (expelled, re-accreted) and its ability to (re-)form stars efficiently is a necessary step to
Oxidation in the pristine Cenozoic atmosphere Co-evolution with life and climate – PaleOX
The level of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is unique in our solar system and reflects the long history of life on Earth. It also leads to a singular oxidative chemistry that regulates atmospheric reactive trace gas levels. This is important because some of these reactive gases, even in minute quantit
Search for lepton flavor violation at LHCb – ReViSaL
The main objectives of the projects are the following: - test alternative techniques to improve the reconstruction of B decays with electrons and taus in the final state, widening the LHCb analysis potential; - measure or set un upper limit for B+ -> K+ e+ mu- and B0 -> K *0 tau+ mu- branch
Properties Of H2ONH3CH4 Mixtures relevant for Planets and Exoplanets Interiors – POMPEI
For planets of our solar system, most of our direct knowledge coming from either space or ground based observations remains limited to the upper atmospheres. Unveiling the internal structure of these objects is not only of interest in its own but is also critical to provide a unifying framework of h
Stellar Evolution with Rapid Rotation – ESRR
The goal of this project is the construction of stellar models able to manage both rapid rotation and secular time evolution, with a parallel development of tools useful for spectroscopy, interferometry and seismology allowing the full exploitation of the data available on these stars. It aim
Organics and Aqueous Systems in Icy Satellites – OASIS
The exploration of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s system respectively by Galileo (1996-2003) and Cassini-Huygens (2004-2017), has revealed that several moons around Jupiter (Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) and around Saturn (Titan, Enceladus, Mimas) harbor a subsurface salty ocean underneath their cold icy surf
Homogenized seIsmic full WAveform Inversion and downscaling – HIWAI
Seismic imaging is an effective tool to investigate the earth interior for academic and industrial purposes, from scales of a few meters to the global Earth. Recently, seismic imaging techniques based on the Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) of active (explosion or airgun) or passive (earthquakes) sourc
Bootstrapping Conformal Theories – conformalbootstrap
Recently, conformal bootstrap techniques have made great strides in tackling strongly-coupled problems in theoretical physics. Using this approach we have already produced world-leading predictions for three-dimensional Ising critical exponents and several other experimentally as well as theoretica
Using the most powerful explosion as probes of the high-redshift Universe – BEaPro
The goals of this project are: (a) to study the properties of an unbiased sample of LGRB host galaxies; (b) to combine the properties of the absorbing gas in the inter-stellar medium (ISM) with those of the ionized gas derived from the host galaxy spectroscopy. Our results will 1. allow a robust us