Academic interests
Searches for new physics with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. More specifically I'm searching for processes where a new heavy gauge boson called Z' are produced in association with dark matter. The Z' is often described as a heavier version of the Z-boson in the Standard Model, and is usually motivated by so-called "Grand Unified Theories", which describes the strong and electroweak interactions as one unified force at high energies. Dark matter is believed to make up about 80% of the matter in the universe, but we have so far not been able to detect it in any particle physics experiment, and its nature is therefore largely still unknown.
Courses taught
Fall 2018, 2020-2021:
Spring 2019-2021:
Fall 2019:
Background
2015-2017: Master of science in sub-atomic physics (University of Oslo)
2011-2014: Bachelor of science in mathematics and physics (University of Stavanger)