Centre for High Energy Physics

Centre For High Energy Physics

Official logo
Motto	"Hard work is the key to success"
Type	Education and research
Established	1982
Director	Prof. Dr. Haris Rashid
Students	400~500
Location	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Campus	Quaid-i-Azam Campus
Colors	Maroon and Light Blue
Mascot	CHEPIAN
Affiliations	HEC
Website	chep-pu.edu.pk

The Centre for High Energy Physics at the Punjab University, commonly referred to as CHEP, is a national research institute for High-energy physics (or Particle physics), a branch of fundamental Physics. It is concerned with unraveling the ultimate constituents of matter and with elucidating the forces between them.

Research in high energy physics started at the Punjab University in 1968. In November 1982, the Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP) was established and entrusted with teaching and research in the field leading to a Master's and doctoral programme.

Logo

The center has a logo which shows a book as a sign of knowledge, and an Arabic verse from the Qur'an which translates to "Why don't you think?" . On top is the department's name and at the bottom is the name of the university.

Building

CHEP is located in the new campus of the University of the Punjab near the main gates of the university (Gate No. 1 and Gate No. 2). CHEP has a two-storey building with its own library (other than the university main library), seven computer labs: a programming, modeling and simulation lab, a supercomputer lab, M.Phill. computer lab, Ph.D. computer lab, a physics lab, a modern physics lab and an electronics lab.

The building stands in front of the Institute of Chemistry and the Under-graduate Block, next to the Institute of Biochemistry. Behind the center lies the university jogging ground.

Research areas

• Harmonic physics
• Experimental High energy physics (data analysis)
• Parallel processing and high performance computation
• Medical Physics (modeling and simulation)
• Computational analysis of physical properties of solids
• Phenomenology of weak decay and CP violation
• Neutrino physics
• Meson-Meson physics
• Physics education
• Quantum physics
• Electromagnetism
• Scientific computation
• Solid state physics
• Thermal physics
• High-energy nuclear physics
• Nuclear physics
• Particle physics
• String Theory
• Computational physics

Academic programs

• Undergraduate programme (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. (with honors) or B.S.) — the institute offers a four years programme. The undergraduate programmes are taught with the advanced courses of engineering. The disciplines are listed below in which the programmes are being offered by the institute:
  • Computational Physics, Engineering Physics, Physics, Applied physics, Electrical physics, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Applied mechanics, Applied Chemistry, Chemistry, and Computer Science.
• Master's and post-research programme (Master of Science (honors), Master of Physics, and/or Master of Philosophy) — the CHEP offers a two year programme in the disciplines listed below:
  • Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Physics, Particle physics, Medical Physics, Electrical physics, Quantum Physics, Solid State Physics, Theoretical Chemistry, Radiochemistry, Chemistry, Biophysics, and Computer science.
• Post-doctoral research and Doctoral programme (Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science) — the institute manages the post-doctoral research and doctoral programmes that are expected to be completed in 2–5 years. The degrees are awarded by publishing a thesis supervised by the institute. The doctoral programmes that are offered are listed below.
  • Nuclear physics, Particle Physics, Theoretical physics, Mathematical physics, Laser physics, Atomic physics, AMO physics, Mathematics, Radiophysics, Astrophysics, Cosmology Nuclear chemistry, Analytical chemistry, Mathematical chemistry and Computer science.

See also

• University of the Punjab
• Lahore
• Punjab