Research Highlights (2023)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 HighlightAstrophysical simulations of Dark Matter with small-angle scatteringPhoto: M. FischerA 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 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...18 April 2023|Research HighlightAxion haloscope signal power from reciprocityPhoto: Jens RuessmannMore and more experiments are searching for axions, hypothetical particles that are candidates for dark matter. A recent Quantum Universe paper...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...More articles
