Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

The Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) is a division of the Physics Institute at the University of Bern in Switzerland and is part of the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics. We conduct research in the field of experimental particle physics, with the main subjects:

   High-Energy Collider Physics
   Neutrino Physics
   Fundamental Neutron and Precision Physics
     Antimatter Physics
   Development of Novel Particle Detectors
   Medical Applications of Particle Physics

News and Events

Greinacher Prizes 2024 for Gaia Dellepiane and Ivo Schulthess

Gaia Dellepiane and Ivo Schulthess have received the Greinacher Prize of 2024 for their PhD theses.

FASERnu Paper Selected for PRL Collection 2024

The FASERnu paper on neutrino cross-section measurements has been selected for the Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year 2024. This prestigious collection highlights the most influential research published in PRL, with only about 2% of all the published papers selected for the collection.

Particle poetry in Ars Electronica Festival

Particle poetry at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz

An interdisciplinary team came together for a remarkable installation art. In this space, it is possible to see, hear, and feel the messages from the cosmos - messages that are usually beyond our perception. The art installation was exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 in Linz in September 2024.

TeV Neutrino Cross Sections

The FASERnu team, led by Prof. Akitaka Ariga, succeeded to measure cross sections of electron- and muon- neutrinos at TeV energies for the first time. The result was published in Physical Review Letters.

Swiss Neutron News Highlight

An article on our work concerning fundamental neutron physics has been published in the Swiss Neutron News ...

Successful Neutron Beamtime at ILL

Members of the Fundamental Neutron Physics Group have just completed an important beamtime in Grenoble ...

The SWAN cyclotron where Pierluigi Casolaro worked for LHEP

IEEE Valentin T. Jordanov Radiation Instrumentation Travel Grant 2023 awarded to Pierluigi Casolaro

Pierluigi Casolaro, former LHEP PostDoc and now Assistant Professor at Gran Sasso Science Insitute (GSSI), has been awarded ...

Ivo Schulthess is awarded with Swiss Neutron Science Society Prize

Ivo Schulthess awarded with Swiss Neutron Science Society Prize

The Swiss Neutron Science Society awarded this years' Young Scientist Prize to Dr. Ivo Schulthess ...

Study Neutron Fields from Particle Accelerators

A novel methodology to characterize neutron fields produced by particle accelerators has been developed ...

Searching for Traces of Dark Matter with Neutrons

An international research team has succeeded in significantly narrowing the scope for the existence of dark matter ...

Two Best Poster Prizes at PSI 2022

The PhD students Anastasio Fratangelo and Marc Persoz, from the Fundamental Neutron and Precision Physics group, both won the Best Poster Prize ...

10 Years since the Discovery of the Higgs Boson

10-year anniversary of the Higgs Boson discovery. To celebrate the anniversary, on July 4th 2022, the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) and the Albert Einstein Center (AEC) invite you to the screening of the film Particle Fever (English).

BCPM awarded a Young Investigator project to Dr. Pierluigi Casolaro

The Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM) awarded a Young Investigator...

First observation of neutrino interaction candidates at the Large Hadron Collider

Prof. Ariga and the FASER collaboration reported ....

IBA Award for Saverio Braccini

Prof. Saverio Braccini won the 2020 IBA Award...

ERC Consolidator Grant for Akitaka Ariga

An ERC Consolidator grant was awarded to PD Dr. Akitaka Ariga for his FASERnu project ...

T2K provides a major step for understanding CP violation

The T2K Collaboration has published in the journal Nature results showing the strongest constraint on the so-called δcp phase ...

New neutron EDM result

Researchers from Bern, PSI, and ETH Zurich, together with international partners, have published a new neutron EDM result ...

SBND starts detector installation

The SBND collaboration started the installation of the Liquid Argon Neutrino Detector at Fermilab ...

Best Poster at PSI 2019

PhD student Ivo Schulthess, from the Fundamental Neutron and Precision Physics group, won the Best Poster Prize at PSI 2019 ...

Fermilab and University of Bern join forces for neutrino physics

Neutrinos are ubiquitous yet elusive particles that could shed light on the early evolution of the universe ...

Visualizaton of magnetic fields with neutrons

A new quantitative method for measuring magnetic fields using polarized neutrons has been developed ...

Swiss LHC computing Tier-2 moves to HPC

The ATLAS computing group of LHEP has pioneered the integration of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems with the ATLAS ...

Elementary particles reveal the landscape of Switzerland

Muon radiography is a method to inspect internal structure of large objects by means of cosmic muons ...

Demonstration of antimatter wave interferometry

Wave-particle duality of single positrons in a double-slit like experiment has been demonstrated by the QUPLAS collaboration ...

Bern students visit Fermilab

A group of bachelor students of this semester course of particle physics of the University of Bern visited Fermilab ...

DUNE RRB and PIP-II groundbreaking

With a ceremony held on March 15th 2019, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory officially broke ground on a major new particle accelerator ...

New experiment at the LHC, FASER, was approved

On March 5th 2019, CERN approved the FASER experiment, which will search for new particles ...

National Future Day

On this year's National Future Day (Zukunftstag) several kids visited the laboratories of LHEP ...

Novel neutron interferometry concept published and funded

A new method to measure the neutron charge using interferometry has been published ...

Neutron beam time at PSI completed

The Fundamental Neutron Physics Group of LHEP has just completed a four-weeks-long beam time ...

First particle tracks in ProtoDUNE

The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks ...

Prototype of the Resistive Shell LAr TPC

LHEP has realized and commissioned a first prototype of the so-called Resistive Shell LAr TPC ...

EU RISE grant for neutrino research

The group working on the Fermilab neutrino program has been awarded an EU RISE grant ...

A boon for physicists: new MicroBooNE results at Neutrino 2018

The MicroBooNE collaboration has produced their first collection of science results and presented them at the Neutrino 2018 conference in Heidelberg ...

OPERA collaboration presents its final result

In May 2018, the OPERA collaboration presented its final result on the muon-neutrino to tau-neutrino oscillation experiment ...

PixLAr beam test completed

The collaboration between LHEP/AEC and Fermilab led to another new result ...

A study in Tau

The DsTau project is a newly launched project, aiming to study tau neutrino production in proton interactions ...

ARGONCUBE module becomes reality

In January 2018, the assembly of the very first ARGONCUBE module started ...

Results on ArCLight sensor published

The ArCLight photon counting device combines advantages of two well-known photon detectors ...

Axion Dark Matter Search

The nEDM collaboration has published new results on a laboratory-based search for axion dark matter ...

Particle Physics at "Nacht der Forschung"

Members of LHEP coorganized the "Nacht der Forschung" at the University of Bern ...

Successful neutron beam time at PSI

The members of the Neutron Physics Group of LHEP have just completed their first beam time of four weeks at the Paul Scherrer Institute ...

First SBND neutrino data with Cosmic Ray Tagger from Bern

On the morning of June 22, a first subdetector of the Short-Baseline Near Detector began taking data at Fermilab ...

Muon radiography of Alpine glaciers

The interdisciplinary project "Eiger muon glacier tomography" has published new results ...

Bern cyclotron laboratory is promoting science in particle accelerator applications

Saverio Braccini and Paola Scampoli from AEC-LHEP edited a special issue of Modern Physics Letters A dedicated to cyclotrons and their applications ...

Ultracold Neutron Workshop in Bern

For the last three days Bern became the capital of ultracold neutron physics ...

ERC Starting Grant

Florian Piegsa from LHEP has been awarded with a prestigious ERC Starting Grant ...

New LHEP-Wepage online

The new LHEP-wepage is online since April 2017.

New research group in LHEP

A new group investigating fundamental neutron physics joined LHEP in October 2016 ...

T2K presents first results on CP violation

The question why the Universe is matter dominated, instead of being made of equal parts matter and antimatter, is still unsolved as of today. One of the conditions required to develop the observed dominance of matter over antimatter ...

European cyclotron experts meet in Bern

The 12th workshop of the European Cyclotron Network (CYCLEUR 2016) was held in Bern on 23-24 June 2016, organized by the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) and supported by the swissHADRON foundation. It reassembled cyclotron experts from about 40 cyclotron laboratories in ...

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