Research Highlights19 March 2024|Research HighlightsRiding the Dark Matter WavePhoto: J Frerick / ESA / ATG medialab.Dark Matter, the elusive particle that has captivated theorists and experimentalists alike, continues to evade direct observation, necessitating...12 January 2024|Research HighlightsTop Secrets: a new way to peek at the dark side of the UniversePhoto: J. Niedziela & CMS/CERNA team of scientists from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe have proposed an innovative approach to search for particles connecting our...30 November 2023|Research HighlightPeakOTron: A Python Module for Fitting Charge Spectra of Silicon PhotomultipliersPhoto: J Schwandt/UHHPeakOTron is a software program developed by a team of scientists of the Quantum Universe cluster of excellence. PeakOTron characterizes the light...16 November 2023|Research HighlightSearching for new exotic particlesPhoto: CMS/CERNThe CMS collaboration has presented its first search for new physics using data from Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider. The new study looks at the...24 October 2023|Research HighlightExploring the origin of unphysically high acceleration efficiencies of electrons in radio relicsPhoto: Rajpurohit et al. 2018In a recently published paper, scientists from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe David Smolinski (UHH), Denis Wittor (UHH), Franco Vazza...23 October 2023|Research HighlightDetector showers wash away backgrounds of new long-lived particlesPhoto: CMS CollaborationMost searches for new physics beyond the standard model (SM) focus on particles that decay almost instantly after being produced. However, many...29 June 2023|Research HighlightBreakthrough in the search for slowly oscillating gravitational wavesPhoto: Aurore Simonnet/NANOGrav-KollaborationFor the first time, astrophysicists have found compelling evidence for the existence of gravitational waves which oscillate with periods ranging from...18 April 2023|Research HighlightHappy birthday, Higgs boson!Photo: CERN ATLASJuly 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 HighlightNew constraints on extended Higgs sectors from the trilinear Higgs couplingPhoto: J. BraathenThe 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 HighlightPrecise predictions for a future muon collider with high new physics discovery potentialPhoto: P. BredtThe Standard Model of particle physics has proven itself excellently as a theory of elementary particles out of which our world consists. However...Show all news