Dr. Henning Flaecher

Biography

Henning Flaecher is an experimental particle physicist with significant expertise in particle physics. His current research involves participation in the CMS experiment at CERN in Geneva and the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment located in South Dakota, which are pivotal in the search for dark matter interactions. Flaecher began his academic journey studying Physics at the University of Hamburg and later spent a year as an exchange student at the University of Southampton in the UK. He completed his Diploma in Physics at the University of Heidelberg and gained early exposure to particle physics while working on the ALEPH experiment at the LEP collider. Henning earned his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, where he worked on the BaBar experiment at SLAC, Stanford, measuring important quark-mass parameters. His career includes a postdoctoral fellowship with PPARC at CERN, where he contributed to the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Flaecher’s current research focus also includes exploring the decays of the Higgs boson into dark matter particles, and his role in the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment underlines his commitment to understanding galactic dark matter interactions. He actively teaches several undergraduate physics courses and supervises students in their final year projects.

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