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29 June 2023|Research Highlight

Breakthrough in the search for slowly oscillating gravitational waves

The artist's impression shows how a series of pulsars are affected by gravitational waves coming from a pair of supermassive black holes from a distant galaxy.

Photo: Aurore Simonnet/NANOGrav-Kollaboration

For the first time, astrophysicists have found compelling evidence for the existence of gravitational waves which oscillate with periods ranging from...
18 April 2023|Research Highlight

Happy birthday, Higgs boson!

Snapshot of a Higgs boson candidate event as recorded by the ATLAS detector: Protons collide at the center point, producing various different particles, which are made visible as characteristic traces by their interaction with the detector material (

Photo: CERN ATLAS

July 4th 2022 marked the 10th birthday of the Higgs boson discovery. On this day in 2012 both the ATLAS and CMS experiment at the Large Hadron...
18 April 2023|Research Highlight

New constraints on extended Higgs sectors from the trilinear Higgs coupling

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Photo: J. Braathen

The article by theoretical physicists H. Bahl (University of Chicago), J. Braathen (DESY), and G. Weiglein (DESY and University of Hamburg) presents a...
18 April 2023|Research Highlight

Precise predictions for a future muon collider with high new physics discovery potential

Illustration of a μ+μ- collider with μ- denoting a muon and μ+ an anti-muon, respectively; Feynman diagrams for the example process Higgs plus Z boson production in the lower right panel

Photo: P. Bredt

The Standard Model of particle physics has proven itself excellently as a theory of elementary particles out of which our world consists. However...
18 April 2023|Research Highlight

Astrophysical simulations of Dark Matter with small-angle scattering

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Photo: M. Fischer

A study led by Dr. Moritz Fischer, a former Ph.D. student of Quantum Universe, presents a numerical scheme that – for the first time – allows...
18 April 2023|Research Highlight

Axion haloscope signal power from reciprocity

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Photo: Jens Ruessmann

More and more experiments are searching for axions, hypothetical particles that are candidates for dark matter. A recent Quantum Universe paper...
28 February 2023|Research Highlight

Discovery of large-scale magnetic fields in the halo of hot gas that surrounds galaxies

picture showing halos aof a galaxy

Photo: J. English/CHANG-ES collaboration

A recent Quantum Universe paper shows that nearby galaxies are surrounded by a magnetised halo of gas. This halo is dubbed the circumgalactic medium...
31 May 2022|Research Highlight

GANplifying event samples

Visual representation of how well the true distribution is approximated by the training data (left) and generative model output (right).

Photo: SciPost (CC BY 4.0)

How the use of generative models in particle physics can improve accuracy
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