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Professor Lefebvre's research focuses on exploring the laws of physics at the energy frontier, particularly studying proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, Switzerland. He actively participated as a founding spokesperson for the ATLAS Canada Collaboration since 1992 and contributed to the development and construction of liquid argon electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry. His leadership in constructing the related cryogenics components at the University of Victoria has been instrumental in achieving the operational status of these components on the ATLAS detector. His work led to the significant discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. Currently, his interests include energy measurement performance at ATLAS, precision electroweak measurements, Higgs boson properties, and improving the ATLAS detector through high-luminosity upgrades at the LHC. Being involved in the ATLAS group at the University of Victoria from 1992 to 2003 and again from 2015 to March 2018, he also chaired the NSERC Subatomic Physics Evaluation Section from 2009 to 2010 and served as a member of the Board Management of TRIUMF Laboratory. In addition to his research, Professor Lefebvre enjoys teaching and has served as a Graduate Advisor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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