Welcome
The Collaborative Research Center “Particle Physics Phenomenology after the Higgs Discovery'' is a joint venture of theoretical particle physicists from
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen University, University of Siegen and Heidelberg University. It is supported by the German Research Foundation
(DFG).
Particle physics has long established itself as an important research discipline focused on understanding Nature at a fundamental level. The current knowledge is summarized in a theory called the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics that describes strong and electroweak interactions. The recent discovery of the Higgs boson formally completes the SM and provides us with a consistent mathematical framework that can be used to describe Nature in fine detail. However, several aspects of the SM force us to raise questions about the foundations of this theory. Many proposed answers to these questions suggest that the SM is a low-energy
approximation to a much more fundamental theory that we strive to discover.
Scientists of the CRC will conduct research in phenomenology of elementary particles focusing, in particular, on the physics of Higgs boson, physics of top quarks, electroweak gauge bosons and jets and flavour physics. Our goal is to develop the necessary methodologies to search for physics beyond the Standard Model through precise measurements at the LHC, flavour factories and elsewhere.
Open positions
Postdoctoral and PhD positions:
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News
08.06.2022-10.06.2022 - The Young Scientists Meeting is a three-day meeting for all members of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TRR 257. Besides scientific talks, this workshop also includes talks about soft skills and gender equality. More information can be found here:
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Recent Seminars
Pheno of extended Higgs sectors
Rui Santos, 21.07.2022, Karlsruhe
10 years of Higgs discovery – Higgs couplings
Nick Wardle, 14.07.2022, Karlsruhe
Classical Black Hole Scattering from a World-Line Quantum Field Theory
Jan Plefka, 07.07.2022, Karlsruhe
TBA
Matthias Neubert, 05.07.2022, Karlsruhe
tbd
Jasmina Nasufi (RWTH Aachen University), 05.07.2022, Aachen
QCD precision measurements and PDF fits
Katerina Lipka, 30.06.2022, Karlsruhe
Gravitational waves from phase transitions in the early universe
Djuna Croon, 23.06.2022, Karlsruhe
tbd
Marco Niggetiedt (RWTH Aachen University, 21.06.2022, Aachen
Model-independent anomaly searches at the LHC
Arnd Meyer (RWTH Aachen University), 14.06.2022, Aachen
Viewing of "Picture a Scientist”
Screening, 24.05.2022, Aachen |
Recent Publications
Dispersive bounds for local form factors in $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda$ transitions
Thomas Blake, Stefan Meinel, Muslem Rahimi, Danny van Dyk
Matteo Fael, Kay Schönwald, Matthias Steinhauser
Syuhei Iguro, Teppei Kitahara, Yuji Omura
X. Chen, T. Gehrmann, E.W.N. Glover, M. Hofer, A. Huss , R. Schurmann
Gudrun Heinrich, Jannis Lang, Ludovic Scyboz
Thorben Finke, Michael Krämer, Maximilian Lipp, Alexander Mück
G. Buchalla, G. Heinrich, Ch. Müller, F. Pandler
M. Czakon, S. Sapeta |