Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching, Germany

The research objective at the Cluster is the Universe: how it formed, how it has developed to this day and how it will develop in the future.

The research at the Excellence Cluster Universe is divided up into numerous individual themes, which are categorized into seven research areas:

1. How do matter and forces behave at the highest energies?
2. What are the symmetries in the early Universe? 
3. What is the origin of particle flavour and mass?
4. What are the phase transitions in the early Universe?
5. What is the nature of dark matter and cosmic acceleration?
6. What processes drive the building of the visible structures in the Universe?
7. What is the cosmic history of element formation?

Web page

• http://www.universe-cluster.de/?L=0

ChETEC contact person

• Roland Diehl (rodmpe.mpg.de)
  http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~rod/rod.html