Filip Moortgat

Filip Moortgat is a Voluntary Visiting Professor at Ghent University's Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research focuses on experimental particle physics at the energy frontier, particularly through involvement with the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. He supervises multiple PhD students investigating fundamental particle phenomena including searches for long-lived particles, heavy neutral leptons, and physics beyond the Standard Model.

Moortgat's research interests span elementary particle physics, high-energy collisions, and precision measurements of Standard Model processes. His group specializes in searches for exotic particles and phenomena including:

• Heavy neutral leptons and long-lived particle signatures
• Top quark physics and rare decay processes
• Supersymmetry and exotic Higgs boson decays
• Beyond-Standard-Model physics at energy and intensity frontiers
• Development of machine learning techniques for particle identification

His recent publications primarily explore LHC Run 2 data analysis, focusing on precision measurements of Standard Model processes and searches for new physics. Common themes include top quark physics, Higgs boson characterization, heavy neutral leptons, and supersymmetric extensions. The research shows consistent emphasis on developing advanced analysis techniques for rare process identification.

Moortgat currently supervises four PhD students working on projects including:

• Search for new physics using LHC data (Maarten De Coen)
• Measurements of rare processes with top quarks (Luka Lambrecht)
• Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (Basile Vermassen)
• Searches for undiscovered processes using multilepton final states (Willem Verbeke)

His research group collaborates extensively within the CMS collaboration, contributing to detector operations and physics analysis across multiple working groups focused on beyond-Standard-Model physics and long-lived particle searches.