Guenette Awarded a 2020 Synergy Grant by European Research Council
November 5, 2020
The NEXT-White detector
Prof. Roxanne Guenette, with colleagues Juan José Gómez Cádenas (Donostia International Physics Center) and Fernando P. Cossío (the University of the Basque Country), have been awarded a 2020 Synergy Grant by European Research Council (ERC) for their proposal of a background-free experiment to discover the nature of neutrinos based on single Barium Atom Light Detection.
The grants, €350 million in total, are intended to support scientific projects that address some of the world’s most formidable research problems spanning multiple scientific disciplines. Out of more than 440 submitted proposals, 34 were selected, making this year's application process one of the most competitive in ERC history. These proposals involve 116 researchers who will carry out their projects at 86 universities and research centers in 22 countries across Europe and beyond.
The ERC Synergy Grant scheme is part of the EU's research and innovation program, Horizon 2020, which helps groups of two to four outstanding researchers bring together complementary skills, knowledge and resources in one ambitious project.
The European Research Council, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premiere European funding organization for excellent frontier research. Every year, it selects and funds the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based in Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and early phases of its commercialization.
Above: NEXT-White, a high pressure Xenon gas detector [Javier Larrea]
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Guenette Awarded a 2020 Synergy Grant by European Research Council
November 5, 2020
The NEXT-White detector
Prof. Roxanne Guenette, with colleagues Juan José Gómez Cádenas (Donostia International Physics Center) and Fernando P. Cossío (the University of the Basque Country), have been awarded a 2020 Synergy Grant by European Research Council (ERC) for their proposal of a background-free experiment to discover the nature of neutrinos based on single Barium Atom Light Detection.
The grants, €350 million in total, are intended to support scientific projects that address some of the world’s most formidable research problems spanning multiple scientific disciplines. Out of more than 440 submitted proposals, 34 were selected, making this year's application process one of the most competitive in ERC history. These proposals involve 116 researchers who will carry out their projects at 86 universities and research centers in 22 countries across Europe and beyond.
The ERC Synergy Grant scheme is part of the EU's research and innovation program, Horizon 2020, which helps groups of two to four outstanding researchers bring together complementary skills, knowledge and resources in one ambitious project.
The European Research Council, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premiere European funding organization for excellent frontier research. Every year, it selects and funds the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based in Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and early phases of its commercialization.
Above: NEXT-White, a high pressure Xenon gas detector [Javier Larrea]
Harvard Department of Physics logo
17 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2872 phone
(617) 495-0416 fax
韓國瑜2009年自北京大學政府管理學院博士班畢業。
準粒子（quasiparticles）或稱集體激發（collective excitations）在物理學中，是一種發生在微觀複雜系統的突現現象。例如固態系統中會好像存在著另一種虛擬的粒子。 以電子在半導體中的運動為例，電子在運動過程中受到來自原子核以及其它電子的作用，然而其行為可以視作帶有不同質量的自由電子。 這個帶有不同質量的「電子」稱為「準電子」（electron quasiparticle）。 [1] 另外一個實例是在半導體的價帶集體行進的電子，其行為可以視作半導體中存在著帶正電的電洞往反方向運行。 其它的準粒子包括聲子（來自固態系統中原子的振動）、電漿子（來自電漿的振盪）等許多種類。
作為少數簡化多體問題的手段之一，準粒子的概念在凝態物理尤其重要。