Laurent Schoeffel

Background

Laurent Schoeffel was born in Paris in 1970 to Augustin and Mireille Schoeffel. His professional life developed within France's particle-physics research system and remained associated with the Paris-Saclay scientific region.

Education

Schoeffel entered the École normale supérieure de Cachan in 1990 and studied physics there through 1994. The institution, founded to prepare teachers and researchers in the sciences and humanities, was part of France's selective grandes écoles system and later became École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.

He continued with doctoral research in particle physics at Université Paris XI, now part of Université Paris-Saclay, completing a doctorate in physics in 1997. His thesis concerned measurement of the proton structure function in the H1 experiment at the HERA collider and the study of low-x evolution equations in quantum chromodynamics.

Career

Schoeffel became a permanent physicist at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, working at the Saclay research center in the Paris-Saclay region from 1998. CEA is France's major public research organization for atomic energy, technological innovation, and fundamental science; its Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe conducts research in particle, nuclear, and astrophysics.

His early research was associated with the H1 experiment at DESY's HERA electron-proton collider, which operated from 1992 to 2007. He studied deep-inelastic scattering, diffractive processes, proton structure, and quantum-chromodynamic descriptions of the strong interaction. His work addressed diffractive parton distributions, low-x physics, deeply virtual Compton scattering, generalized parton distributions, and the spatial structure of the proton.

Schoeffel later participated in research connected with the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. ATLAS is a general-purpose detector designed to investigate proton-proton collisions and test the Standard Model while searching for new phenomena. His CEA affiliation has also involved the training and scientific guidance of students and early-career researchers in particle physics.

Achievements

• Schoeffel developed research on diffractive deep-inelastic scattering and proton structure through analyses associated with the H1 experiment at HERA. His work addressed the quantum-chromodynamic interpretation of diffraction and the partonic structure of the proton.

• He prepared an habilitation thesis, Advances in Diffraction of Sub-Nuclear Waves, synthesizing research on HERA diffraction, exclusive particle production, generalized parton distributions, and nucleon tomography.

Works

• conference paper

  • New developments in QCD analysis of inclusive diffraction at HERA

    (This work reviewed H1 and ZEUS measurements of diffractiv...)

    2009
  • Inclusive diffraction at HERA

    (Schoeffel described an H1 analysis of inclusive diffracti...)

    2013
  • Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at HERA II

    (Schoeffel presented a measurement of elastic deeply virtu...)

    2007

• habilitation thesis

  • Advances in diffraction of sub-nuclear waves

    (Habilitation thesis presenting Schoeffel's research on di...)

• review article

  • Generalized parton distributions in the context of HERA measurements

    (The article examined deeply virtual Compton scattering re...)

    2011
  • Diffraction and its QCD interpretation

    (Schoeffel reviewed diffractive phenomena observed at HERA...)

    2009

Membership

Schoeffel has participated in the H1 collaboration, an international scientific collaboration that operated the H1 detector at the HERA electron-proton collider. He has also been associated with the ATLAS collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, whose members conduct particle-physics measurements using the ATLAS detector.

• Particle-physics collaboration operating the H1 detector at the HERA electron-proton collider.

  H1 Collaboration , Germany

• Particle-physics collaboration associated with the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

  ATLAS Collaboration , Switzerland

Connections

Schoeffel is the son of Augustin Schoeffel and Mireille Schoeffel. His life partner is Sophie Mazzoleni.

Father:

Augustin Schoeffel

Mother:

Mireille Schoeffel

References

• CEA Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe profile and departmental contact page Documents Schoeffel's association with the CEA Saclay Department of Particle Physics and identifies him as a contact for advanced internships.
  2025
• H1 Collaboration members Lists Schoeffel among members affiliated with IRFU, CEA, and Université Paris-Saclay.
• HERA doctoral thesis record Documents Schoeffel's 1997 doctoral thesis at Université Paris XI concerning the proton structure function measured in the H1 experiment and low-x QCD evolution.