HAFUN Research Building
Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory
HAFUN will be a research building for the University of Hamburg, based in Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld. Eight experimental physics research groups will be based in this building and use the special labs there to conduct research on fundamental interactions in cosmology and particle physics.
Specifically, the researchers will focus on the properties of the Higgs-Boson elementary particle. There are also plans to study further particles and their interactions within the standard model of elementary particle physics. Furthermore, the research groups will observe and measure dark matter and study the transitional phases in the early Universe by observing gravitational waves. AI is also integral to the research program.
Research groups from the core research area particle, astro- and mathematical physics will be based at HAFUN. This is one of 5 core research areas at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence. The HAFUN-based groups are an integral part of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe, in the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences and the Department of Physics.
