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Michael Staelens, Ph.D.

College Professor, Canada

College Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Okanagan College. I maintain an active research program in high-energy physics phenomenology as part of the MoEDAL-MAPP Collaboration. My work combines problem-solving, computational modeling, and scientific investigation expertise with a passion for teaching and effective scientific communication. I am interested in collider phenomenology, searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model, and studies of electromagnetic interactions with biological systems.

Awards

Received over the past 10 years.

2021—Graduate Student TA Award

2020—CAP-PPD Divisional Best Student Oral               Presentation Award (3rd)

2019—UAlberta GSA Travel Grant

2016—AIHS Summer Studentship

2015, 2016—Jason Lang Scholarship

Awards

Received over the past 10 years.

Publications

Search for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger mechanism

Electrically charged particles can be created by the decay of strong enough electric fields, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger mechanism. By electromagnetic duality, a sufficiently strong magnetic field would similarly produce magnetic monopoles, if they exist. Here we present a search for magnetic monopole production by the Schwinger mechanism in Pb–Pb heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, producing the strongest known magnetic fields in the current Universe.

Scattering problems via real-time wave packet scattering

In this paper, we use a straightforward numerical method to solve scattering models in one-dimensional lattices based on a tight-binding band structure. We do this by using the wave packet approach to scattering, which presents a more intuitive physical picture than the traditional plane wave approach.

First Search for Dyons with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV pp Collisions

The MoEDAL trapping detector consists of approximately 800 kg of aluminum volumes. It was exposed during run 2 of the LHC program to 6.46 inverse femtobarns of 13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the LHCb interaction point. Evidence for dyons (particles with electric and magnetic charge) captured in the trapping detector was sought by passing the aluminum volumes comprising the detector through a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer.

Searching for heavy neutrinos with the MoEDAL-MAPP detector at the LHC

We present a strategy for searching for heavy neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider using the MoEDAL Experiment's MAPP detector. We hypothesize the heavy neutrino to be a member of a fourth generation lepton doublet, with the electric dipole moment (EDM) introduced within a dimension-five operator.

Magnetic Monopole Search with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV pp Collisions Interpreted in Photon-Fusion and Drell–Yan Production

MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of stable or pseudostable highly ionizing particles produced in high-energy Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collisions. Here we update our previous search for magnetic monopoles in Run 2 using the full trapping detector with almost four times more material and almost twice more integrated luminosity.

Explaining the Microtubule Energy Balance: Contributions Due to Dipole Moments, Charges, van der Waals and Solvation Energy

In this paper, we calculate the dipole–dipole interaction energy between tubulin dimers in a microtubule as part of the various contributions to the energy balance. We also compare the remaining contributions to the interaction energies between tubulin dimers and establish a balance between stabilizing and destabilizing components, including the van der Waals, electrostatic, and solvent-accessible surface area energies.

Contact

509 IATA

Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)

Universitat de València–CSIC

C/ Catedrático José Beltrán 2

46980 Paterna (Valencia), Spain

michael.staelens@ific.uv.es

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