HAFUN—Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory (2029)
What is dark matter and how did it emerge? Researchers of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe focus on research questions like this. The new HAFUN building will be their future research home base. Among them are 8 experimental physics professors who in 2012 contributed to the basic research that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, and who will conduct research in particle, astro- and mathematical physics at the HAFUN. Comparable to CERN researchers, they aim to develop improved particle detectors at accelerators and so-called gravitational-wave detectors, which only recently enabled researchers to verify Albert Einsteins’s prediction of spacetime curvature from 100 years ago.