François Corriveau
Ph.D. (ETH Zürich),
M.Sc. (UBC, Vacouver),
B.Sc. (U. Laval, Québec)
Professor (McGill) and
IPP
Principal Research Scientist
(514)-398-6515,
corriveau à physics.mcgill.ca
As an experimental physicist, I am especially interested in high energy
collisions to get new insights
into the nature and structure of matter.
ATLAS
In the footsteps of LEP,
both the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the
ATLAS detector at CERN
have been built to investigate further symmetry breaking and the origin
of mass by searching for the Higgs particle (found it in 2012!).
Canadian groups were very active building part of the detector
and preparing for the data taking which started in 2009.
The McGill
group is heavily contributing to
the high level trigger and energy measurement optimizations.
I am particularly interested in specific particle production processes,
Higgs, W and Z properties,
calorimeter detector calibration, and particle flow algorithms.
We are looking for strong and motivated students.
Have a look at our webpage
on experimental particle physics at McGill University!
ILC
The next generation of accelerators can no longer be circular because
of energy losses and the power demands. The planned
International
Linear Collider would ideally complement the LHC and investigate the
properties of the Higgs with high precision. Part of the contributing
Canadian groups joined the
CALICE
collaboration to work on calorimetry
R&D projects and the development of energy flow algorithms
(McGill).
See also the local
CALICE page.
My group has studied the coupling of modern SiPM detector devices to
scintillator tiles, simulated the light collection, analysed test
beam data and contributed to the construction and tests
of the first Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (DHCAL) at
ANL.
We also investigated several performance parameters of the Analogue
Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCAL), energy response and timing.
Thanks to the high granularity of both
calorimeters, track segments were also used to design an in situ
calibration of the detectors.
ZEUS
A McGill group was involved in the
international ZEUS collaboration.
Unique electron-proton collisions took place at the HERA accelerator of
the DESY research center in
Hamburg,
Germany.
My main interests were in the domain of deep inelastic scattering of
punctual electrons on protons, thus probing the content of the
proton very close to the attometer (0.000000000000000001 m!) scale.
This enables us to determine the structure functions of the proton.
Strange and charm particle production mechanisms
have been studied extensively and successfully by our group.
Another project was the observation of jets of particles: not
only do they testify of the quark and gluon content of the proton, but
they also represent a powerful tool to determine the value of the
alpha_s coupling constant of the strong interaction. The available
kinematic range in ZEUS is sufficiently large that the constant's
running could even be observed within this measurement.
ZEUS and HERA ran until July 2007. The physics analyses are still now almost
completed...
HELIOS
Ages ago, with a joint group from McGill University and the
Université de Montréal, I participated in the
HELIOS experiment (NA34) at the
CERN
SPS. We observed beams of
protons and heavy ions on fixed targets and measured the
details energy flow in a large solid angle detector.
No quark-gluon plasma signal was found, but we tried!
MEPOL
My Ph.D. thesis measured the transverse polarisation of
positrons from polarized muon deday at the SIN research center
(now PSI) in Switzerland.
Four new independent Michel parameters were determined for
the first time.
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CAP Particle Physics Division
(new web pages)
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CAP Particle Physics Division
(old web pages 2011-2017, webmaster)
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CAP Particle Physics Division
(old web pages 2001-2011, webmaster)
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2006 - CALICE Collaboration Meeting at McGill (organizer)
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2006 - Acfas Congress - Particle Physics Colloquium (coordinateur)
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2012 - LLWI - Ice Hockey!
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2007 - DAAD Science Tour ..
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2002 - LLWI - Ice Hockey Tournament ("serial" session organizer)
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Experimental Particle Physics at McGill University
(Coordinator & Webmaster)
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Centre Interuniversitaire de Physique Subatomique
in Montréal (Director)
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McGill Centre for High Energy Physics
(Director)
[Reports]
- HEP and Astroparticle Physics
Seminars and
Wednesday Meetings
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McGill HEP/Astro Computer Network - Guidelines (coordinator)
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Spark Chamber Project
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Page Professionnelle / Professional Page / Professionelle Seite
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Page Personnelle / Personal Page / Persönliche Seite
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Graduate Student Positions in the ATLAS/McGill Group
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Past Projects and Activities at McGill,
JLC Activities at KEK
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Home Page at DESY,
ZEUS Projects and Activities at DESY
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- McGill:
McGill
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Centre for High Energy
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Physics
- McGill:
The McGill/ZEUS Group
- ZEUS:
Main Page,
People,
Public Results
- ZEUS:
Internal,
Notes,
ZEMS
- ZEUS:
Papers,
Publications,
Current update from
SPIRES
- ZEUS:
Secretary,
Author Lists,
Job Openings
(pages created by FC)
- ZEUS:
Dir,
Earn
lists
- DESY:
HEP
rivals
at
DESY
are
H1
and
HERMES,
Guest Services,
Phone Book
- FC:
Publications,
Current Update from
SPIRES
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Phone: 81-(298)-79-6078
Fax: 81-(298)-64-2580
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Phone: 41-(22)-76-77879
Fax: 41-(22)-76-78350
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Office: "Container", Room 119C (116C)
Phone: 49-(89)-32354-307 (393)
Fax: 49-(89)-32267-04
First created on June 10th, 1996.
Last updated by
François Corriveau
(corriveau à physics.mcgill.ca)
April 10th, 2022.
