Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung
| Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hollik | Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe |
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| Prof. Dr. Reinhold Rückl | Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg |
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| Beginn der ersten Förderung | 01.09.2001 |
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Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden
| Elementary particle physics investigates the fundamental structure of matter. The most important questions that await answers are: Where does the mass of the building blocks of nature come from? What makes the invisible part of the matter in the universe? What is the microscopic structure of space and time? These and many other related problems should be solved by the future international colliders, like the Large Hadron Collider at the Centre Europeen de Physique Nucleaire (CERN) near Geneva. However, the search for answers still reminds of the proverbial needle in a haystack. Michal Czakon and his group will make predictions and develop software for the necessary high energy experiments. This will make it easier to examine the existence and characteristics of new elementary particles - such as the Higgs boson, the discovery of which should explain many of the questions, most importantly, the origin of mass of all the other particles. |
