{"id":4170,"date":"2026-10-13T13:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/?page_id=4170"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:14:38","slug":"theoretical-physics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/?page_id=4170&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Theoretical physics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/blackboard.jpg\" alt=\"blackboard\" height=\"640\" width=\"1280\" title=\"blackboard\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tTheoretical physics\t<\/h2>\n\tThe team is active in the phenomenology of fundamental interactions.<br \/>\nTheir research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics in particle physics and cosmology, ranging from the nature of the Big Bang and the mechanism of inflation to hadronic physics and numerical simulations of the strong interaction, as well as the analysis of the Standard Model and its extensions (supersymmetry, axions, unified theories , etc.), and the development of tools for interpreting experimental results.\n\t\t\t\tAbout\n\t\t\t\tPeople\n\t\t\t\tList of thesis\n\t\t\t\tPublications\n\t\t\t\tSeminars and Events\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout\n\t\t\t\t<p>General presentation of the group<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPeople\n\t\t\t\t<p><u><strong>Staff<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aur\u00e9lien Barrau &#8211; <em>Loop Quantum Cosmology, gravitational waves<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sabine Kraml &#8211; <em>BSM Phenomenology, (re)interpretation of LHC results<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mariane Mangin-Brinet &#8211; <em>Lattice QCD, Quantum Computing<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Killian Martineau &#8211;\u00a0 <em>Loop Quantum Cosmology, gravitational waves<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ingo Schienbein &#8211; <em>Parton distributions<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Christopher Smith &#8211; <em>Axion Physics (Head of Theory Group).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>Postdocs<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mohamad Altakach [CDD],<\/li>\n<li>Pierre Jamet [ATER]<\/li>\n<li>Rafal Maselek [CDD]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>PhD students<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Th\u00e9o Brugeat [PhD]<\/li>\n<li>Leo Constantin [PhD]<\/li>\n<li>Maxime Desousa [PhD]<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Guerandel [PhD]<\/li>\n<li>Cypris Plantier [PhD]<\/li>\n<li>Diego Saviot [PhD]<\/li>\n<li>Martin Teuscher [PhD]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tList of thesis\n\t\t\t\t<p>list of recent PhD\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublications\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeminars and Events\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRESEARCH PROJECTS\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/exclusions_2mdm_ratio_dij_monoj_rmax-landscape-0cf7e1143800ef73c21b053e3ffd80bd-.png\" alt=\"Contraintes conjointes dues aux recherches d&#039;\u00e9nergie manquante et de r\u00e9sonances dans le mod\u00e8le \u00e0 deux m\u00e9diateurs de mati\u00e8re noire (2MDM), obtenu avec SModelS v3\u00a0; la r\u00e9gion exclue (r&gt;1) appara\u00eet en jaune et rouge. [JHEP\u00a011\u00a0(2024)\u00a0074]\n\" height=\"1200\" width=\"1500\" title=\"exclusions_2mdm_ratio_dij_monoj_rmax\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>BSM Phenomenology<\/h4>\t\n\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/QCDvac-landscape-0e82113ead3f753f4b4fb639aec0399e-.jpg\" alt=\"QCDvac\" height=\"782\" width=\"1245\" title=\"QCDvac\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>Axions<\/h4>\t\n\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/PDF-landscape-0cc6e6c66ffecaae2190c69b54395b8d-.jpg\" alt=\"Une nouvelle description des noyaux combine le mod\u00e8le quark-gluon de la physique des particules avec la description proton-neutron de la physique nucl\u00e9aire. Dans cette illustration de l'artiste, les quarks sont repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s par les petites sph\u00e8res, montr\u00e9es interagissant via des gluons pour cr\u00e9er des nucl\u00e9ons. Une paire temporaire de nucl\u00e9ons corr\u00e9l\u00e9s est mise en \u00e9vidence en violet. (Courtoisie : Institut de Physique Nucl\u00e9aire, Acad\u00e9mie Polonaise des Sciences)\n\" height=\"250\" width=\"398\" title=\"PDF\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parton distributions<\/a><\/h4><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\t\n\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/trou-noir-landscape-5c09ab77fd8e9551bbe6b8a12925b211-.png\" alt=\"trou noir\" height=\"800\" width=\"1280\" title=\"trou noir\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4><a href=\"#\" target=\"_self\">Physics of the early universe<\/a><\/h4>\t\n\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/?page_id=2660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/Wicek_BlackBoard-landscape-e9fec61f15e429c55dcf44034ed8959e-.jpeg\" alt=\"Source: http:\/\/frankwilczek.com\/Wilczek_Easy_Pieces\/298_QCD_Made_Simple.pdf\" height=\"598\" width=\"1212\" title=\"Wicek_BlackBoard\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/?page_id=2660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lattice QCD<\/a><\/h4><a href=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/?page_id=2660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\t\n\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/trou-noir-landscape-5c09ab77fd8e9551bbe6b8a12925b211-.png\" alt=\"trou noir\" height=\"800\" width=\"1280\" title=\"trou noir\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>Ultra high frequency gravitational waves<\/h4>\t\n\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsc-wordpress.in2p3.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/Sycamore-rainbow-landscape-ab645b3c5be12dbdce77f20dca90e211-.jpeg\" alt=\"The Google Sycamore chip used in the creation of a time crystal. (Image credit: Google Quantum AI)\n\" height=\"1000\" width=\"1500\" title=\"Sycamore-rainbow\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>Quantum computing<\/h4>\t\n<h1>\n\t\t\tEn construction\t<\/h1>\n\tArrive bient\u00f4t !<br \/>\n\n\t<h3>Questions about our activities? Contact us !<\/h3>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical physics The team is active in the phenomenology of fundamental interactions. 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