Research Summary
Tantalizing, challenging and unanswered questions in particle physics and astroparticle physics have persisted for decades. As Canada Research Chair in Experimental Particle Physics, Dr. Matthias Danninger is tackling several of these open questions.
To discover and characterize new physics beyond our current knowledge, he and his research team are working with two of the world’s foremost international experiments: the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE). They are searching for long-lived particles in an attempt to shed light on some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, such as the reason matter prevailed over antimatter in the early universe and the nature of dark matter. They are also pioneering new track reconstruction algorithms for the High-Luminosity LHC and using and analyzing data from the P-ONE Demonstrator. Ultimately, their research will shed light on key questions in particle and astroparticle physics.