PARTICLE PHYSICS

Thomas Konstandin is a scientist in the theory group of DESY. He works mostly on topics at the interface of particle physics and cosmology. In particular,  this includes solutions to the matter-antimatter puzzle, production of gravitational waves and analytic models of large scale structure formation. The era of gravitational wave astronomy recently started with the  discovery of gravitational waves from black hole mergers by LIGO. At the same time, gravitational waves produced by cosmological events - like phase transition - can provide invaluable information on particle physics that is complementary to collider studies. Likewise, the properties of dark matter leave an imprint on the formation of large scale structures that complements that dark matter experiments at colliders and with dark matter direct detection experiments. Research at this interface between cosmology and particle physics may thus allow insights into old puzzles and new phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
 

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