Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Csaba Balazs is a theoretical particle physicist who infers fundamental principles of Nature from experiment. In a quest to complete Einstein's dream, he tackles some of the deepest mysteries of physics: How did the Universe begin, what is it made of, how do its constituents interact, and how does it evolve? Csaba Balazs studies the cosmic connections between the smallest (the elementary particles) and the largest (the Universe), which encode the answers to some of these basic questions. Since the fundamental forces governing the subatomic world also shape the structure of our Universe, part of the answer is written in the stars.
The fundamental principles of physics are also being probed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the highest energy experiment ever built. The LHC is testing our understanding of what the elementary particles really are and how certain properties of these particles, such as their mass, arise. The work of Csaba Balazs enables physicists to interpret the LHC results and assists extracting the fundamental principles of Nature. His work also incorporates astrophysical observations that complement the information from the LHC, shedding light on the elusive dark matter, dark energy and, perhaps, dark forces.
Research area keywords
- Dark matter models and discovery
- Cosmic matter-antimatter asymmetry
- Baryogenesis
- Primordial gravitational waves
- Higgs boson portal to physics
- Supersymmetry, supergravity
- Unification of fundamental forces
- Extra dimensions
- Particle astrophysics
- Particle cosmology
Network
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Electroweak phase transition: A cosmological window to new particle physics
Kobakhidze, A., Balazs, C., Ramsey-Musolf, M. J. & Fowlie, A.
13/12/21 → 12/12/24
Project: Research
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array - From Production towards Operation
Rowell, G., Dawson, B., Voisin, F., Tothill, N., Krumholz, M., Bicknell, G., Crocker, R., Balazs, C., Boehm, C., Green, A., Seitenzahl, I., Hurley-Walker, N., Burton, M., Hinton, J. & Tajima, H.
1/01/21 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Optimising the search for the next discovery in particle physics
White, M., Balazs, C., Williams, A. G., Athron, P., Roos, L. & Parker, M.
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array - Production Phase
Rowell, G. P., Maxted, N., Burton, M. G., Tajima, H., Veitch, P. J., Balazs, C., Filipovic, M., Bicknell, G., White, M., Green, A., Berge, D., Dawson, B. R., Greenshaw, T., Crocker, R. & Hinton, J.
28/07/17 → 31/12/21
Project: Other
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Visualisation of Multidimensional Physics Data
Valencia, G., Balazs, C., Cook, D., Buja, A. & Rosati, M.
1/01/17 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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A comparison of optimisation algorithms for high-dimensional particle and astrophysics applications
The DarkMachines High Dimensional Sampling Group, 13 May 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 5, 46 p., 108.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
CosmoBit: A GAMBIT module for computing cosmological observables and likelihoods
The GAMBIT Cosmology Workgroup, Feb 2021, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2021, 2, 100 p., 022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus) -
Global fits of axion-like particles to XENON1T and astrophysical data
Athron, P., Balázs, C., Beniwal, A., Camargo-Molina, J. E., Fowlie, A., Gonzalo, T. E., Hoof, S., Kahlhoefer, F., Marsh, D. J. E., Prim, M. T., Scaffidi, A., Scott, P., Su, W., White, M., Wu, L. & Zhang, Y., May 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 5, 40 p., 159.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access13 Citations (Scopus) -
Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation
Abdalla, H., Abe, H., Acero, F., Acharyya, A., Adam, R., Agudo, I., Aguirre-Santaella, A., Alfaro, R., Alfaro, J., Alispach, C., Aloisio, R., Batista, R. A., Amati, L., Amato, E., Ambrosi, G., Angüner, E. O., Araudo, A., Armstrong, T., Arqueros, F., Arrabito, L. & 479 others, , Feb 2021, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2021, 2, 66 p., 048.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
16 Citations (Scopus) -
Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, Jan 2021, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2021, 1, 057.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access259 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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2020 National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme
Balazs, Csaba (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Other distinction
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National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme grant, sole CI
Balazs, Csaba (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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TeV Particle Astrophysics Workshop (TeVPA 2019)
Csaba Balazs (Organiser)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Scientific Coordinator, GAMBIT Collaboration
Csaba Balazs (Member)
2019 → …Activity: External Academic Engagement › External research and teaching
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Frontiers in Physics (Journal)
Csaba Balazs (Guest editor)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Universe (Journal)
Csaba Balazs (Associate editor)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Frontiers of Physics (Journal)
Csaba Balazs (Peer reviewer)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility