The focus of our research at the Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics (TTP) is the study of physics of elementary particles. Physics of elementary
particles is successfully described by the Standard Model of Particle Physics that was proposed as the leading theory of Nature more than 40 years
ago. The Standard Model is an extremely successful theory which describes a vast majority of phenomena that are observed in the Universe. Yet,
theoretical shortcomings of the Standard Model suggest that this theory is incomplete and that additional, so far unknown, particles and interactions
should exist. The research of the Institute contributes towards discovering the physics beyond the Standard Model through refined theoretical
descriptions of Standard Model processes and through a development of specific models of New Physics.
Researches at the Institute provide theoretical support for studying Higgs boson physics at the LHC, explore the flavour structure of the
Standard Model and beyond by studying properties of B and D mesons and develop new methods for performing high-precision computations
in Quantum Field Theory.
News
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10.10.2024 Particle physics seminar Next Thursday, 10.10.2024 at 15:45, there will be a special particle physics seminar on “Ultraheavy particles at the LHC”. The speaker is Bogdan Dobrescu, Head of the Fermilab Theoretical Particle Physics Department. The seminar will take place in room 11/12. |
25.09.2024 Young Scientists Meeting of the CRC TRR 257 From 25.09.2024 to 27.09.2024 we will have the three-day Collaborative Research Center TRR 257 young scientists meeting in Karlsruhe. Young reserchers will present talks focused on the various projects of our CRC. |
10.09.2024 HP2 2024 Various TTP members will present recent results at the High Precision for Hard Processes at the LHC conference (HP² 2024) in Torino, which this year was dedicated to the memory of Stefano Catani. |
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Next Thursday, 25.07.2024 at 15:45, we will have the final KCETA Particle Physics Colloquium of the semester. Dr. Christoph Ternes (LNGS) will talk about “Searching for new physics with neutrino scattering”. The seminar will take place in the Kleiner Hörsaal A (CS) . |
Next Thursday, 18.07.2024 at 15:45, we will have the next KCETA Particle Physics Colloquium. Prof. Josef Jochum (U. Tübingen) will talk about “Is the neutrino identical to its antiparticle - the experimental search for neutrinoless double beta decay”. The seminar will take place in the Kleiner Hörsaal A (CS) . |
Our next institute seminar will take place this Wednesday 17 July at 11h30. The speaker this time is Tim Kretz, who will give a talk about “Heavy Sterile Neutrinos from B Decays and new QCD Corrections to their semi-hadronic Decay Rates”. The seminar will take place in room 10/01. |