Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1102: Physics at Hadron Accelerators
Subject Area
Particles, Nuclei and Fields
Term
from 2005 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 454969
Hadron accelerators will play a leading role in particle physics during the next 10 to 15 years. With the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently under construction at the European research centre for particle physics, CERN, in Geneva, an exploration of the so far unknown TeV energy domain will become possible after its turn-on in 2007 and answers to key questions of particle physics may become available.
The main topic of the Research Training Group is a test of the standard model of particle physics and the search for extensions at present and future hadron accelerators. In a first phase, tests of the electroweak theory and of Quantum Chromodynamics will be carried out with complementary measurements in different experiments. The experimental programme consists in the investigation of deep inelastic lepton nucleon scattering at the experiments ZEUS at DESY in Hamburg and COMPASS at CERN and in the investigation of proton antiproton collisions in the D0 experiment at the US research laboratory Fermilab. The experience gained there will be fed into the analysis of LHC data, where the search for the Higgs boson and for physics beyond the standard model is the central topics.
An important part of the Research Training Group is the calculation of higher order corrections for WW, and Higgs production at hadron colliders. These calculations are necessary for a precise comparison between data and theory. Due to a close collaboration between physicists of different experiments on the one hand and between experimentalists and theorists on the other hand, an extensive analysis of current data can be carried out and the data analysis at the LHC can be prepared in optimal way.
The main topic of the Research Training Group is a test of the standard model of particle physics and the search for extensions at present and future hadron accelerators. In a first phase, tests of the electroweak theory and of Quantum Chromodynamics will be carried out with complementary measurements in different experiments. The experimental programme consists in the investigation of deep inelastic lepton nucleon scattering at the experiments ZEUS at DESY in Hamburg and COMPASS at CERN and in the investigation of proton antiproton collisions in the D0 experiment at the US research laboratory Fermilab. The experience gained there will be fed into the analysis of LHC data, where the search for the Higgs boson and for physics beyond the standard model is the central topics.
An important part of the Research Training Group is the calculation of higher order corrections for WW, and Higgs production at hadron colliders. These calculations are necessary for a precise comparison between data and theory. Due to a close collaboration between physicists of different experiments on the one hand and between experimentalists and theorists on the other hand, an extensive analysis of current data can be carried out and the data analysis at the LHC can be prepared in optimal way.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Karl Jakobs
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Jochum van der Bij; Professor Dr. Jochen C. Dingfelder; Professor Dr. Stefan Dittmaier; Professor Dr. Horst Fischer; Professor Dr. Gregor Herten; Professor Dr. Harald Ita; Professor Dr. Kay Königsmann; Professor Dr. Markus Schumacher; Dr. Stefanie Zimmermann (†)
