The new Research Unit "Modern Foundations of Scattering Amplitudes" constitutes a collaboration among 10 Principal Investigators from the University of Bonn, the TU Munich, the Uni Mainz and the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Munich.
Scattering amplitudes furnish crucial building blocks to describe experiments at particle colliders and gravitational wave observatories. The new Research Unit aims to investigate various aspects of these amplitudes and to uncover in this way new fundamental mathematical and physical principles. This will make it possible to calculate scattering processes at particle accelerators or gravitational waves, which are created when black holes or neutron stars merge, more precisely. "Modern experiments in particle and gravitational wave physics require ever more precise theoretical predictions, which can only be achieved using state-of-the-art mathematical methods. This is precisely what we will use and advance" says the spokesperson of the new research group and Director of the Bethe Center, Prof. Claude Duhr.