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Prof. Gilad Perez
What gives masses to the particles? We believe that it is related to electroweak symmetry breaking which raises the hierarchy problem, the huge gap between the weak and Planck scales. The LHC experiments is addressing some of these questions and at the same time rising new ones. Recent cosmological-observation raised additional puzzles: What is the source of dark matter and energy? We explore experimental and theoretical methods to improve our knowledge regarding these issues. We also propose to use optical atomic clock spectroscopy to Search for Higgs-mediated interactions in atoms at table top experimentsInterpreting a 750 GeV Diphoton Resonance, By Rick S. Gupta, Sebastian Jager, Yevgeny Kats, Gilad Perez, Emmanuel Stamou. arXiv:1512.05332 [hep-ph].Is the Higgs Mechanism of Fermion Mass Generation a Fact? A Yukawa-less First-Two-Generation Model, By Diptimoy Ghosh, Rick Sandeepan Gupta, Gilad Perez. arXiv:1508.01501 [hep-ph].A Universe without weak interactions, By Roni Harnik, Graham D. Kribs, Gilad Perez. hep-ph/0604027. Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 035006.
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Dr. Shikma Bressler
ATLAS experimentData analysis - Searches for physics beyond the standard modelLepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs and Z bosonsAsymmetry in electron/muon final statesGeneric data driven searchesInstrumentation - Upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometerProduction and testing of the sTGC chambersPErformance studiesInstallation in the ATLAS cavernDetector physicsCollaboration with: A. Breskin and L. AraziBasic R&DThe role of resistive materials in gaseous detectorsCharge and light amplification in Liquid ArgonApplicative R&DPhysics applications - future calorimeters in accelerators and neutrino physics experimentsCivil applications - muon tomography for hazardous material detection, volcanology, medicine and more
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Prof. Eran Oded Ofek
Gravitational lensing and microlensingAstronomical algorithms and high contrast imaging.Design and construction of W-FAST - Two telescopes system to explore the visible-light sky on sub-second time scales and search for Oort cloud objects.Transients and supernovae; shock breakout observations and measuring the properties of supernova progenitors; Eruptions prior to supernova explosions and interaction between the supernova ejeecta and its circumstellar matter; Design of the ULTRASAT UV space telescope.Search for isolated black holes in the Galaxy via astrometric microlensing.
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Prof. Amos Breskin
Noble-liquid neutron and gamma radiography concepts for detection of concealed explosives and nuclear materials (Homeland security)Photon imaging detectorsNoble-liquid detector concepts for Dark-matter searches, neutrino physics and medical diagnosticsAdvanced gas-avalanche electron multipliersParticle tracking detectors for future particle and astroparticle experimentsMethods of Nano-dosimetry for precise evaluation of radiation effects at the DNA levelMethods for rapid evaluation of core fluids content in oil and gas wells
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Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam
Cosmic explosionsCore-collapse supernova explosions: their origins, nature, physics and population statisticsThermonuclear supernova explosions (SNe Ia): their nature and ratesGamma-Ray Bursts: their origin and relation to supernovaeNew types of cosmic explosions
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Prof. Ofer Aharony
Weakly coupled versions of the AdS/CFT correspondence and possible derivationsCollaboration with: S. Minwalla, G. Gur-Ari, R. YacobyGeneral properties of field theories with quenched disorderCollaboration with: Z. Komargodski, S. YankielowiczStrongly coupled field theories in anti-de Sitter spaceCollaboration with: M. Berkooz, S. Rey, D. Tong, S. YankielowiczDualities between field theories in various dimensionsCollaboration with: G. Gur-Ari, S. Minwalla, P. Narayan, S. Razamat, N. Seiberg, T. Sharma, B. Willett, R. Yacoby
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Prof. Yitzhak Maron
Imploding Plasmas under Pulsed Magnetic Fields:High-Resolution Spectroscopic studies of High-Energy-Density Plasmas (visible to x-ray).Design and build up of fast (ns) and ultra-fast (sub ns) optical spectroscopic systems.Studies of Instabilities and turbulence phenomena.Radiation transport and ion temperature in imploding plasmas.High-Power-Laser matter interaction:Warm dense matter (solid-state with temperatures above the Fermi energy) formed by intense laser solid-state interaction.Intense-Laser-Beam-guiding by the use of plasma channels.Development of novel spectroscopic diagnostic methods for matter under extreme conditions.Experiments are performed in major European laboratories: Jena, Drezden (Germany), Ecole polytechnique (France).Close collaboration with Universities and National plasma laboratories in the US (Cornell, Sandia, NRL, LLNL-NIF).
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