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FRERE Jean-Marie
Units
Theoretical Physics : Fundamental Interactions
Our research is at the interface between fundamental interactions, including gravity, and cosmology. We use experiments and observations from colliders, telescopes, underground detectors, etc, to uncover the laws of nature beyond those encompassed within the Standard Model of particle physics. The topics we are concerned with include the nature and origin of dark matter and dark energy, the physics of neutrinos, the origin of the baryon asymmetry of the universe and its relation to CP violation and, last but not least, the mechanism at the origin of the mass of elementary particles (the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism).
Projetcs
We deal with theoretical and phenomenological aspects of fundamental interactions. Our research covers the physics of the so-called Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology, including their extensions. It rests both on the theoretical consistency of models of fundamental interactions, and on experimental and observational data from particle and astroparticle physics, and cosmology.
