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
![]() 24.04.2025 KCETA Particle Physics Colloquium Next Thursday, 24.04.2025 at 15:45, we will have our first KCETA Particle Physics Colloquium of the semester. This time we welcome Dr. Federico Meloni (DESY), who will talk about “Towards a muon collider“. The seminar will take place in the Kleiner Hörsaal A (CS). |
![]() 23.04.2025 Institute's seminar Our first institute's seminar of this semester will take place on Wednesday 23 April at 11h30. The speaker this time is Ming-Ming Long, who will talk about “WH production within SMEFT at NNLO QCD”. The seminar will take place in room 10/01. |
![]() 14.02.2025 Ph.D. defence at TTP We congratulate Manuel Egner on today's successful defence of his Ph.D. thesis! |
Next Thursday, 06.02.2025 at 15:45, we will have the last KCETA Colloquium of the semester. This time Prof. Andrea Caputo (Sapienza U. of Rome & CERN-TH) will talk about “From the ionosphere to dwarf galaxies, chasing new particles”. The seminar will take place in the Kleiner Hörsaal A (CS). |
Our next institute's seminar will take place on Wednesday 5 February at 11h30. The speaker this time is Henda Mansour, who will talk about “On the equation of state of the universe after a first-order phase transition”. The seminar will take place in room 10/01. |
This Tuesday, 04.02.2025 at 15:45, there will be a special particle physics seminar by Simon Plätzer (Universität Graz). The talk will be about “A new perspective on hadronization models”. The seminar will take place in room 10/1. |