NorCC: Norwegian Center for CERN-related Research
The Norwegian Center for CERN-related Research (NorCC) conducts research in experimental high-energy particle physics and experimental high-energy nuclear physics at the University of Bergen. Our goal is to understand the nature of elementary particles and their interactions, and solve some of the great mysteries of the universe.
About the research project
The Center combines fundamental research with technology development, and governs Norwegian research and development activities at CERN, which are grouped around the ATLAS and ALICE experiments and research collaborations. These particle detectors are large scientific apparatuses of several thousand tons that record data from proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions delivered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 100 meters underground. With Run 3 of the LHC ending in 2026, research groups are now fully engaged in detector and computing upgrades for the high-luminosity phase of the LHC that is expected to start in 2030. During Runs 4 and 5, the detectors will have to cope with extreme levels of pile-up, up to 200 simultaneous collisions per proton bunch crossing, compared to 64 in Run 3.
People
Project manager
Anna Lipniacka Project Manager
Dieter Röhrich Project Manager
Project members
Johan Alme Professor
Gerald Eigen Professor Emeritus
Simen Hellesund Postdoctoral Fellow
Bertrand Martin dit Latour Researcher
Joakim Nystrand Professor
Matthias Richter Researcher
Bjarne Stugu Professor Emeritus
Kjetil Ullaland Professor
Phd Students
Tarje Hillersøy Phd Student
Adwait Meppurath Phd Student
Andreas Ulveseth Mikalsen Phd Student
Bilal Mughal Phd Student
Engineering Staff
Previous members
Erlend Aakvaag Phd Student
Aleksandr Bylinkin Phd Student
Julia Djuvsland Researcher
Nikolai Fomin Postdoctoral Fellow
Sohaib Hassan Phd Student
Magne Lauritzen Engineer
Graham Lee Researcher
Ingrid McKibben Lofnes Phd Student
Max Rauch Postdoctoral Fellow
Are Træet Phd Student
Contact
The managers of the project, Prof. Anna Lipniacka and Prof. Dieter Röhrich, can be contacted at the following email addresses, respectively:
anna.lipniacka@uib.no
dieter.rohrich@uib.no
