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
20.03.2024 Particle Physics Colloquium Next Wednesday, 20.03.2024 at 12:00, there will be a Particle Physics Colloquium. Felix Kahlhöfer (TTP) will talk about “Why haven't we discovered dark matter yet?”. The seminar will take place in Otto-Lehmann-Hörsaal, CS 30.22. |
15.02.2024 KCETA Particle Physics Colloquium On Thursday, 15.02.2024 at 15:45, we will have the weekly KCETA Particle Physics Colloquium. We welcome Dr. Babette Döbrich (MPI), who will talk about “New results for searches of exotic particles with NA62 in beam-dump mode”. The seminar will take place in Kleiner Hörsaal A (CS). |
14.02.2024 Institute's seminar Our next institute seminar will take place this Wednesday 14 February at 13h30. The speaker this time is Nicoline Hemme, who will talk about “Freeze-out of a strongly interacting dark sector with light vector mesons”. The seminar will take place in room 10/01. |
On Thursday, 08.02.2024 at 15:45, we will have the weekly KCETA Particle Physics Colloquium. We welcome Prof. Björn Penning (University of Zürich), who will talk about “Recent results from the LZ experiment and future direct DM searche”. The seminar will take place in Kleiner Hörsaal A (CS). |
The next institute seminar will take place this Wednesday 07 February at 13h30. Our speaker this time is Surabhi Tiwari, who will talk about “Resummed next-to-soft corrections to the rapidity distribution of Pseudo-scalar Higgs boson”. The seminar will take place in room 10/01. |
This Tuesday, 06.02.2024 at 15:45, we will have a special Particle Physics Seminar. The speaker is Daniel Maitre (IPPP, University of Durham) will talk about “Multivariate Integration with Neural Networks”. The seminar will take place in room 10/01. |