The Centre for High Energy Physics at The University of Punjab, Lahore, 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 University of the Punjab, Lahore 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.
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 double 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. Phil. computer lab, PhD. 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 & Biotechnology'. Behind the center, there lies the University jogging ground.
Research Areas
- Computational physics
- Particle physics
- Nuclear physics
- High-energy nuclear physics
- Scientific computation
- 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
- Solid state physics
- Thermal physics
