Claude Leroy
- Professeur titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de physique
Complexe des sciences office B-4445
Courriels
leroy@lps.umontreal.ca (Travail)
Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
- Physics of elementary particles and fields
- Nuclear physics
- ATLAS experiment (LHC)
- Storage rings and colliders
- Dosimetry
- Standard-model Higgs bosons
- Accelerators
- Extensions of the Standard Model
- Dosimetry / exposure assessment
- Solid-state detectors
- Unified theories and models of strong and electroweak interactions
- Quantum mechanics
- Quantum statistical mechanics
The study of the physics of the Standard Model of elementary particles and beyond, as part of the high-energy ATLAS experiment using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. This includes research into and the study of the Higgs boson, supersymmetric particles and any new physics revealed by the high-energy collisions produced by the LHC. The study of the radiation field produced in the ATLAS detector and its spectral characteristics using the Medipix and Timepix silicon pixel detectors (ATLAS-MPX and ATLAS-TPX). These measurements of the radiation field in ATLAS at CERN concern the detection and identification of charged particles (electrons, positrons, protons, anti-protons, pions, kaons, alpha particles and heavier ions, etc.) and neutral particles (photons, neutrons, neutral pions and kaons, etc.). Luminosity measurement in the LHC using the ATLAS-MPX and ATLAS-TPX detectors and the van der Meer beam displacement method.
Measurement of the efficiency of detection and shape recognition of particles in silicon pixel detectors and heavy semiconductor pixel detectors (GaAs, CdTe) with the tandem accelerator at the Université de Montréal R.-J. A. Lévesque laboratory.
The use of Medipix and Timepix silicon pixel detectors with charged particles, X-rays and gamma rays for imaging applications (use of charge sharing between pixels) with submicron spatial resolutions. The measurement of radiation fields and their spectral characteristics using pixel detectors in medical physics experiments (including hadron therapy) and in space (development of pixel detector-based dosimeters for space missions and the International Space Station). The study of radiation damage and the improvement of radiation resistance of particle detectors exposed to high radiation levels (neutron and photon flux, in particular) in various particle accelerators covering a wide range of energy levels and in nuclear reactors.
The preparation of a program for improving the detection capacity (in particular new generations of pixel detectors) of the ATLAS detector of the LHC at CERN and the improved LHC (SLHC), with higher collision energy and greater luminosity and in future colliders.
Student supervision Expand all Collapse all
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Research projects Expand all Collapse all
Major Resource Support at the Université de Montréal for Canada's Subatomic Physics Program Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2026
Major ressource support for the particle physics group at University of Montreal Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2019
The ATLAS experiment in the CERN LHC (Applicant: R.A. McPherson Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2019
MAJOR RESOURCE SUPPORT FOR THE PARTICLE PHYSICS GROUP AT THE UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL Projet de recherche au Canada / 1999 - 2016
CANADIAN CHARGED PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONSORTIUM (CCPAC) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2011 - 2015
THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT AT THE CERN LHC (APPLICANT : R MCPHERSON) Projet de recherche au Canada / 1994 - 2015
MAJOR RESOURCE SUPPORT FOR THE PARTICLE PHYSICS GROUP AT THE UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL Projet de recherche au Canada / 2010 - 2014
THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT AT THE CERN LHC (APPLICANT: R. MCPHERSON) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2009 - 2011
Recognition and Awards
- Bourse Killam, Conseil des arts du Canada, 1993.
- Société royale du Canada : Les Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada, Société royale du Canada, 1989.
Additional Information
- 19-01-2018 - Le gouvernement canadien annonce un appui majeur à la recherche à l’Université de Montréal
- 14-10-2015 - Un prix Nobel de physique pour le Canada ou pourquoi le financement de la recherche est important
- 09-07-2014 - L'étau se resserre autour de la Supersymétrie
- 30-10-2013 - Réflexions sur le Prix Nobel de physique 2013 par Manu Paranjape
- 19-12-2011 - A-t-on découvert le boson de Higgs? Des chercheurs de l’Université de Montréal participent à l’expérience ATLAS
- 09-12-2010 - Des physiciens de l'Université de Montréal jettent un premier coup d'œil sur la naissance de l'Univers au CERN
- 15-09-2008 - Des chercheurs de l’Université de Montréal participent à la construction et à l’opération du détecteur ATLAS
- 31-03-2008 - 2500 chercheurs, une supermachine, une nouvelle perspective de l’univers
- 30-04-2003 - Sur les traces de la matière sombre
- 04-09-2001 - Piéger l'invisible
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