Cluster of Excellence "Color meets Flavor"
Search for new phenomena in the strong and weak interaction
The existence of dark matter and the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe indicate that our understanding of nature is still incomplete. Even though almost all measurements in particle physics can already be precisely described by the standard model, deciphering the structure of matter in the sub-atomic range remains one of the most pressing research questions in fundamental physics. The question is: Where are new fundamental physical phenomena hidden?
Some of the most interesting measurements of recent years involve the interplay of strong ("color") and weak ("flavor") interactions. The researchers in the Color meets Flavor Cluster of Excellence want to shed more light on this interplay in close collaboration between theory and experiment. The focus is on the physics of quarks and the question of how these fundamental building blocks of matter form complex bonding states. In addition, the properties of the Higgs boson will be investigated and the search for the axion will be continued. As the masses of the six known quarks span several orders of magnitude, the experimental infrastructure required to study them ranges from experiments at lower energies at the ELSA particle accelerator in Bonn to experiments at the highest energies at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, where the Higgs boson can also be studied.
Speaker
Prof. Dr. Jochen Dingfelder, Elementary Particle Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Bonn; Spokesperson of the Research and Technology Center Detector Physics
Site spokesperson Siegen:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Lenz, Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, Center for Particle Physics Siegen
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