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Research Highlights (2025)

7 February 2025|Research Highlight

New Galactic Binaries to Enable LISA Hunt for Black Holes

Gravitational wave strain vs. frequency for detectable & verification Galactic binaries. Filled/open stars denote verification/detectable binaries for LISA (image at bottom left). Grey points are mock binaries; solid black line is LISA sensitivity at

Photo: Kupfer et al. (2024) and LISA/ESA

Compact binary systems containing a white dwarf or neutron star emit low frequency gravitational waves. Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe...
23 January 2025|Research Highlight

Missing Piece to the Higgs Production

puzzle with different Higgs couplings printed on the pieces

Photo: CMS Collaboration: A. Cardini, S. Hurst, N. Stathak

To bring more clarity to the Higgs boson production, Quantum Universe postdoc Andrea Cardini together with doctoral researchers looked deeper into the...
6 January 2025|Research Highlight

CMS Confirms a Rare Phenomenon: Light Bouncing off Light

A graphical representation of light-by-light collisions

Photo: CMS Collaboration

Light particles bouncing off other light particles have been observed by the CMS collaboration at the LHC, confirming a rare prediction of the quantum...

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