About us
The Discovery center is a "Centre of Excellence" established by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF). The center began January 1st, 2010 at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Discovery is initially funded by the DNRF for a duration of five years for the period 2010-2015.
The activities in the center are subdivided into four closely collaborating groups working with particle physics and cosmology. For details on the organization of the center and the people involved, please see the organization page.
The physics groups of the center are:
This group participates in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. On the hardware side the group is involved in the Transition Radiation Tracker as well as in the Trigger-DAQ and on the physics side on final states containing tau-leptons or electrons.
This group participates in the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider where it is responsible for a laser calibration system for the Time Projection Chamber and for the Forward Multiplicity Detector.
The cosmology group participates in the Planck satellite mission science team.
The theory group explores new techniques for calculating amplitudes and probability densities for complex processes involving the strong interaction.
