Grants

Large research infrastructure CERN-CZ

LM2023040 (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, 1/2023 – 12/2026)
CERN-CZ coordinates the participation of Czech research community in CERN, including our work at COMPASS a AMBER experiments. Its main task is the maintenance and development of the research infrastructure itself (detectors, accelerators, IT...)

Exploring hadron structure at COMPASS and AMBER

PRIMUS/22/SCI/017 (Charles University, 1/2022 – 12/2025).
The project is focused on COMPASS data analysis in order to study the transverse momentum and polarisation of quarks within protons and neutrons, and on the development of a new data acquisition system with continuous readout for AMBER.

Fundamental constituents of matter through frontier technologies (FORTE)

OP JAK EH22_008/0004632 (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, co-financed by the EU, 1/2024 – 6/2028).
FORTE brings together experimental and theoretical physicists from Czech institutions to study the fundamental building blocks of matter. Our group within the project focuses on the COMPASS and AMBER experimental data analysis to help uncovering the structure of hadrons (protons, neutrons, pions and kaons) and to contribute to the dark matter searches by studying the "natural" production of antiprotons at AMBER.

Structure and spectroscopy of hadrons research project (SHARP)

COST Action CA24159 (COST Association, financed by the EU, 10/2025 – 10/2029)
The COST programme promotes networking between researchers from member countries by financing mobility and organisation of workshops, conferences and summer schools. Our project SHARP is focused on the strong interaction, hadron structure and new detector and data analysis techniques.

Exploring pion and nucleon structure at COMPASS and AMBER

OP JAK MSCA Fellowships CZ UK4 (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, co-financed by the EU, 10/2025 – 9/2027)
The aim of this project is to deepen the knowledge of hadron structure using Drell–Yan and J/ψ measurements. First, unique information on the Boer–Mulders distribution, describing the transverse polarisation of quarks with respect to their intrinsic transverse momentum within the hadron, will be obtained from existing COMPASS data by studying the azimuthal dependence of the cross section. Second, an optimal setup and trigger logic for the new AMBER experiment will be determined, allowing for even more precise measurements in the future, which can also reach the almost unexplored kaon structure.