Research Highlights20 September 2024|Research HighlightFirst Limits on Axion Dark Matter from MADMAXPhoto: Ary dos Santos Garcia, B., et al. (MADMAX Collaboration (2024)For its first time, the MADMAX (Magnetized Disc and Mirror Axion eXperiment) collaboration has set limits on axion dark matter with its prototype...5 September 2024|Research HighlightEccentric Black Hole Binaries Could Point to a New Fundamental ParticlePhoto: M. Koschnitzke & M. Bošković et al. (2024)Three researchers from the Quantum Universe Excellence Cluster have found that observing black hole binaries with a higher than expected orbital...19 August 2024|Research HighlightMADMAX Prototype Searches for Dark Photon Dark Matter with Thousand-fold ImprovementPhoto: MADMAX Collaboration – Egge, J. et al. (2024)MADMAX (Magnetized Disc and Mirror Axion eXperiment) at University of Hamburg & DESY is being developed to look for Galactic axion dark matter using a...14 August 2024|Research HighlightThe Imprint of Cosmic Strings in High Frequency Gravitational WavesPhoto: Servant, G. and Simakachorn, P. (2024)Wrinkles in the fabric of spacetime, known as cosmic strings, which might have formed in the early Universe, could be a dominant source of...15 July 2024|Research HighlightCollider Probes of Electroweak Phase Transition in an Extended Higgs SectorPhoto: Kateryna Radchenko SerdulaIs the Higgs boson solitary or part of an extended sector of Higgs bosons waiting to be discovered? Could that explain the cosmic matter-antimatter...27 June 2024|Research HighlightClassifying conformal field theories by means of the Leech latticePhoto: Möller, S. and Scheithauer, N. (2024)Mathematician Sven Möller (Universität Hamburg) from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe and his colleague Nils Scheithauer (TU Darmstadt) have...26 June 2024|Research HighlightCorrecting the non-Linear Response of Silicon PhotomultipliersPhoto: SensorsSilicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPMs) are efficient light detectors which can sense single photons and are used in high-energy physics, medical imaging and...18 June 2024|Research HighlightA New Spin on Neutron Star MergersPhoto: diagram and simulation by S. Rosswog et al. (2024)Neutron star mergers are among the most violent and spectacular events in the Universe. Until now, large individual spins of the neutron stars had not...6 June 2024|Research HighlightCMS maps out Dark Matter searchesPhoto: CMSA new CMS review paper surveys the 40+ searches already performed for dark matter particles at the Large Hadron Collider. It provides new...3 June 2024|Research HighlightScouting and Parking CMS data for more physicsPhoto: CMS/F. BlekmanA new CMS paper describes how the CMS experiment can squeeze more physics out of the LHC data by using smarter data selection/reduction techniques. Show all news