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09.01.2024 / 19:00 - 20:00 / Hamburg, Alfred Schnittke Akademie International Max-Brauer-Allee 24 22765 Hamburg
Vortrag / LectureIS QUARK THE KEY TO THE DARK UNIVERSE?
Christian Schwanenberger, Teilchenphysiker (Universität Hamburg/University of Hamburg )
Everyone knows the quark, but the top quark is an elementary particle and the heaviest one at that. Although it appears to be indivisible and infinitely small, it is about as heavy as a gold atom, which consists of almost 200 protons and neutrons. These and other striking properties lead many scientists to believe that the top quark could be the key to groundbreaking discoveries such as dark matter. Why is this the case? What is dark matter? And what does all this have to do with quark? Prof Dr Christian Schwanenberger is a senior scientist at DESY and a professor at the University of Hamburg. He is a member of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva and the DZero experiment at the Tevatron Collider in Chicago. His main research topics are elementary particle physics, in particular precision measurements of the properties of the top quark and its electroweak and strong couplings, the interaction between the top quark and the Higgs boson, the search for supersymmetric and other exotic extensions of the standard model of particle physics, and the search for dark matter. Free admission! Duration approx. 1 hour, open Q&A session afterwards
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