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
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.
Projects and Activities at McGill
Here are a few useful links
How to reach me at McGill (1991-)
| Office: | Rutherford Physics Building, Room 330 | |
| Phone: | 1-(514)-398-6515 | |
| Fax: | 1-(514)-398-8434 | |
| E-mail: | corriveau à physics.mcgill.ca | |
| Web: | http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~corriveau |
How to reach me at DESY (1988-2014)
| Office: | Building 1a, Room 01.142 | |
| Phone: | 49-(40)-8998-2607 | |
| Fax: | 49-(40)-8998-3092 | |
| E-mail: | francois.corriveau à desy.de | |
| Web: | http://www-zeus.desy.de/~francois |
How to reach me at KEK (2001)
| Office: | Building #3, Room 404 | |
| Phone: | 81-(298)-79-6078 | |
| Fax: | 81-(298)-64-2580 | |
| E-mail: | francois à post.kek.jp | |
How to reach me at CERN (2006-)
| Office: | Building 32, Room S-C24 | |
| Phone: | 41-(22)-76-77879 | |
| Fax: | 41-(22)-76-78350 | |
| E-mail: | francois.corriveau à cern.ch | |
How to reach me at MPP 2019 (2016)
| Office: | "Container", Room 119C (116C) | |
| Phone: | 49-(89)-32354-307 (393) | |
| Fax: | 49-(89)-32267-04 | |
| E-mail: | francois à mpp.mpe.de | |
| Web: | http://www.mpp.mpg.de/~francois | |