The Accelerator physics pole is involved in several areas of fundamental physics such as particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics as well as particle detector physics and their medical applications.
This lab has a long tradition in the field of fundamental interactions with major contributions in quantum fields, particles and strings. The particle physics group investigates quantum chromodynamics at the border of the domains in which Nature is respectively described in terms of quarks and gluons and in terms of hadrons.
The mission of the Department of Accelerators, Cryogenics and Magnetism is to develop and build:
particle accelerators
ion sources
accelerator radio-frequency cavities
cryogenic systems
superconducting magnets
DACM has extensive assembly, integration and testing facilities, ranging from winding and magnet assembly halls, to large clean rooms for accelerator systems and small test stations to characterize materials, to very large stations capable of testing complete assemblies.
The Department of Astrophysics/UMR AIM (DAp-AIM) is an internationally recognised space laboratory, working in partnership with CNES, the government agency responsible for the elaboration and implementation of French space policy. DAp-AIM is heavily involved in space missions for ESA's Cosmic Vision science programme and in bilateral missions supported by CNES.
The main mission of the Department of Detectors, Electronics and Computing for Physics is to design and build innovative detection instruments allowing new discoveries in Physics.
The DPhN of CEA/Irfu employs about 70 people, including 45 staff physicists leading basic research in experimental and theoretical nuclear physics, as well as measurements and modelling related to societal topics, including, among others, nuclear energy.
The research projects within the Energy and Environment pole (EE) tackle fundamental questions of interest for the development, among others, of nuclear energy.
This center embody interdisciplinary scientific ambitious, whose finality is to succeed in a same framework and around the questions of the complexities of living organisms, and in particular the brain and its pathologies, biologists, physicists and doctors through three main axis:
the radioisotopic and optical imaging for preclinical and clinical applications in cancerology and neurobiology (ultrafast PET imaging, nonlinear optical endomicroscopy, ambulatory gamma imaging for surgery assistance, intracerebral probes)
the new approaches in radiotherapy (micro and nano-dosimetry, dosimetry for radionuclide therapy, beam monitoring, production of new radionuclides)
the modelling of biological systems (growth of brain tumors, cell migration and proliferation, quantitative histology, intracellular traffic)
Drawing on a broad network of collaborations, the development of these themes is based on an expertise in methodology at the interface of physics-biology-medicine.
The High-Energy Physics (PHE) pole studies the quarks (for example building blocks of protons and neutrons) and leptons (as electron and neutrino), elementary constituents of matter.
The Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) is a laboratory of the CNRS and the University of Paris-Saclay, in addition to having the status of Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers. It comprises 145 scientists, engineers, technicians, administrators and students.
IPhT is a research institute of the Fundamental Research Division (CEA) and of the Physics Institute (INP/CNRS). It hosts approximatively 50 permanent physicists and about 60 doctoral students and postdocs.
The main goal of the institute are to formulate and study the mathematical and physical laws that govern our universe, its structure and organization.
The Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory (LLR) is a joint research unit (UMR 7638) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (IN2P3) of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Ecole Polytechnique. It is located on the site of the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau (91).
The IJCLab Nuclear Physics department conducts fundamental experimental and theoretical researches in nuclear physics as well as in the field of radioactive ion beams and ion/matter interactions.
The Particle physics department (DPhP) is addressing particle physics, astroparticle physics and observational cosmology through five main research topics:
particle physics at high-energy colliders
neutrinos physics
antimatter and gravitation
cosmic phenomena at very high energy
the dark Universe
DPhP is involved in the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with responsibilities in detector operation and in physics analyses, with emphases on standard model precision measurements, on Higgs-boson and top-quark physics, and on the search for new physics.
As a R&D unit of the Energy Division of CEA, SERMA - 'Studies service of reactors and applied mathematics' - is developing a broad set of radiation transport and radioactivity software to address the various problematics mainly related to the nuclear reactor physics as well as nuclear energy systems/installations in general: core physics, criticality-safety, radiation protection and shielding, nuclear instrumentation.
The Systems Engineering Department (DIS) is a mechanical engineering and instrumentation department structured in different labs, dealing with mechanical engineering, electronics, control system, power electronics and instrumentation.
Dis not only design and procures warm and cryogenic elements for particle accelerators but also control systems of such equipment.
The Theoretical Physics pole gathers theorists working on a large range of fields:
cosmology and gravitation
Higgs boson physics
QCD
flavor physics
BSM models and theories
nuclear physics
statistical physics
mathematical physics
The strength of theoretical physics, characterized by its transverse nature, comes on one side from the collaboration between theorists and experimentalists and on the other side from the interaction among theorists designing and refining common tools to tackle various problems.
