Physicists publish review in Nature Reviews Physics
Researchers in particle and astroparticle physics at TU Dortmund University, together with colleagues from Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) and the University of Wuppertal (BUW), have published a comprehensive review in the renowned journal Nature Reviews Physics. The publication presents an approach for systematically investigating common questions in particle and astroparticle physics. In the future, this could contribute to significantly improving both our understanding of fundamental interactions and the interpretation of astrophysical observations.
The publication is linked to the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1491 “Cosmic Interacting Matters,” which is based at RUB and combines theoretical astrophysical models with experimental observations. The Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Wuppertal are also involved in the SFB. The research combines two central questions of modern physics: How well do the laws of particle physics that we know from the laboratory describe the processes in the universe? And are the differences between measurements of cosmic particle collisions and predictions from laboratory experiments indications of new physical phenomena?