GRK 1675:  Particle and Astroparticle Physics in the Light of LHC

• Subject Area: Particles, Nuclei and Fields
• Term: from 2012 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 164315326

The goal of this Research Training Group is to examine the limits of the standard model of particle physics. With the commissioning of the LHC accelerator, we expect significant new results in this field in the coming years. We hope that they will allow us to contribute to the answers of fundamental questions of basic research such as the origin of mass of elementary particles, the nature of dark matter, the cause of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe and perhaps even the unification of general relativity theory and quantum field theory. The Research Training Group will participate in the development of these issues by its own research programme. The experimental research groups of the programme are participating in the CMS experiment at the LHC accelerator in Geneva, in the AMS experiment on the International Space Station, in the Pierre Auger project in Argentina, in the IceCube experiment at the South Pole and in various experiments of neutrino physics. By combining astro-particle physics and particle physics at one site we have the possibility that these questions can be examined with complementary approaches in the interplay between theory and experiment. The individual research groups in Aachen are each positioned very well in their fields.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Stefan Schael
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Martin Beneke; Professor Dr. Werner Bernreuther; Professor Dr. Martin Erdmann; Professor Dr. Lutz Feld; Professor Dr. Thomas Hebbeker; Professor Dr. Michael Krämer; Professor Dr. Achim Stahl; Professor Dr. Christopher Wiebusch; Professorin Dr. Yvonne Yuen Ying Wong