Today, elementary particle physics is confronted with a set of key questions, the answers of which are tightly related to the development of the early universe. How did the particles acquire their mass? What generated the matter asymmetry in our universe? The institute is currently participating in two large international collaborations to explore the matter/anti-matter asymmetry, the BABAR experiment currently operated at the Stanford Linear Accellerator Center in California and the LHCb experiment currently under construction at CERN in Geneva.
Researchgroups
- ATLAS - Proton-Proton Scattering at 14 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy
- BaBar - B Physics at the e+e- Accelerator PEP II
- High Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors - Research and development
- LHCb - Search for CP-Violation at the LHC
- mu3e Experiment at PSI - The Mu3e experiment is looking for new physics in muon decays
- DARWIN - Search for WIMP dark matter scattering on liquid Xenon nuclei
